Bertya mollissima Blakely

Shrub to 3 m high; young branchlets with a moderately dense to dense straw-coloured to golden yellow indumentum of stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, linear to lorate, oblong or rarely narrowly elliptic, 6–24 mm long, 1.4–3.7 mm wide; base obtuse to cuneate; margin recurved; apex obtuse to rounded; adaxial surface densely hairy with stipitate stellate hairs, glabrescent, tuberculate. Inflorescences on peduncles 1–1.6 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 3–3.7 mm long; stamens 35–65. Female flowers sessile; calyx lobes narrowly ovate to ovate, 2–2.7 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent abaxially, with margins entire; ovary densely stellate-pubescent. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, 5.5–7.6 mm long, glabrous except for a sparse to moderately dense indumentum of stellate hairs distally, 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes c. ¼ the fruit length.

Grows in rocky sites on steep hillsides and on mountain tops in open heath or open eucalypt woodland communities. Soils shallow grey sand or gravelly loam overlying basalt, trachyte or andesite.