Beyeria villosa Halford & R.J.F.Hend.

Erect much-branched shrub to 1 m high, resinous on calyx lobes and adaxial leaf surface. Young branchlets ± angular, densely hairy with simple and bifid hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong to linear, 7–14 mm long, 1.4–2.1 mm wide; apex rounded to slightly truncate; abaxial surface densely hairy with ± sessile, stellate hairs c. 0.5 mm across. Flowers axillary, ± sessile, solitary or in 2-or 3-flowered fascicles. Male flowers: receptacle c. 0.6 mm across, glabrous; stamens c. 10. Female flowers: calyx lobes oblong or broadly ovate, c. 0.5 mm long; ovary densely hairy, 2-locular; stigma ±discoid. Fruit subglobose, 3–4 mm long, sparsely to moderately hairy; persistent calyx lobes c. one quarter the capsule length.

Grows in mallee or Eucalyptus transcontinentalis tall shrubland communities on well-drained, brown clay sandy soils.