Beyeria calycina Airy Shaw

Spreading, much-branched shrub to 1 (–1.5) m high, resinous on most parts. Young branchlets ± angular, longitudinally grooved, glabrous. Leaves linear, 15–35 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; apex obtuse to acute, ultimately with apiculum c. 0.3 mm long; abaxial surface densely hairy with ± sessile, white stellate hairs c. 1 mm across. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, solitary; pedicels 3–4 mm long (♂), c. 5 mm long (♀), ± glabrous except for scattered minute erect hairs proximally. Male flowers: receptacle c. 1 mm across, minutely hairy; stamens 15–20. Female flowers: calyx lobes accrescent, broadly obovate, 2–3.5 mm long (up to 7 mm long in fruit); ovary glabrous, minutely papillose, 3-locular; stigma discoid. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, c. 4.5 mm long, glabrous, minutely papillose; persistent calyx lobes longer than fruit length.

Grows in Casuarina shrubland with scattered mallee eucalypts and shrubby understorey on red brown sandy loam on undulating plains.