Notothixos leiophyllus K.Schum.

Spreading or pendulous plant to 1 m long; tomentum cream to golden, rarely rusty, fading and disappearing from stems and adaxial leaf-surfaces. Prophylls and cataphylls narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long; cataphylls often unequally placed 1-4 mm above prophylls. Leaf lamina narrowly to broadly ovate or elliptic, acuminate but eventually rounded, bluntly mucronate, usually 5-10 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, darker and sometimes lustrous adaxially; petiole 5-10 mm long. Inflorescence an indeterminate raceme of cymules in 6-12 decussate pairs; axis up to 10 cm long; peduncle of cymule 2-5 mm long; bracts narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long; cymules 5-9-flowered, the central 0-3 flowers male. Male flowers 1 mm diam., shortly stipitate. Female flowers 1.5 mm long. Fruit ellipsoidal to nearly globular, somewhat translucent, c. 8 mm long.

The hosts are rainforest trees.