Trymalium elachophyllum Rye

Shrub 0.25–1.5 m high, often intricately-branched, sometimes spinescent, with greyish or rusty simple and/or stellate pubescence on young stems, leaves, inflorescences and flowers. Leaves: stipules triangular, 0.9–2 mm long, persistent; petiole 0.2–0.5 mm long; lamina narrowly obovate to broadly elliptic, 1.5–2.5 (–4.5) mm long, 0.7–1.5 (–2) mm wide, base cuneate or obtuse, entire, revolute, apex obtuse, recurved-apiculate, densely pubescent beneath, glabrous or minutely scabrous above. Inflorescences few-flowered; bracts persistent. Pedicels 0.5–2 mm long. Flowers white or cream (rarely greenish). Hypanthium 0.8–1 mm diam. Sepals 0.9–1 mm long, caducous. Petals 0.5–0.6 mm long. Stamens 0.3–0.4 mm long. Ovary summit glabrous; style 0.3–0.5 mm long.

Grows in mallee woodlands and shrublands on loamy, often gravelly soils.