Faurea discolor Welw.

Adult leaves discolorous, silvery beneath, ± lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, up to 12 cm long and 3.5 cm wide (but quite often less than this), usually 3–4 times as long as broad, tapering to an apiculate apex and decurrent base, sometimes appearing very shortly petiolate; venation visible on upper surface but often only midrib clearly visible on undersurface, young leaves silky appressed-tomentose and silvery in appearance, persistently so beneath with the tomentum of shortly upwardly appressed hairs ± completely covering the surface of the lamina, glabrescent above, some longer spreading hairs also sometimes present towards the base of the leaf on the undersurface.