Diplolaena cinerea Paul G.wilson

Bushy shrub to 1.2 m high. Leaves with slender petiole 4–8 mm long; lamina flat, elliptic, mostly 20–30 mm long, broadly cuneate at base, rounded at apex, soft, sparsely to moderately pubescent adaxially with small sessile and shortly stipitate stellate hairs, moderately soft-pubescent to velvety abaxially. Flowerheads c. 2 cm diam.; outer bracts ovate, c. 10 mm long, acute to acuminate, with a grey velvety indumentum; inner bracts narrowly ovate, shortly exceeding outer, grey-tomentose. Petals c. 9 mm long, pale orange, woolly-ciliate. Stamens: filaments c. 15 mm long, green to pale orange, stellate-pilose towards base; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, pink.

Growing in sandy or gravelly soils over laterite, usually in open woodlands.