Astrotricha cordata A.R.Bean APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub to 3 m high, branches lacking or few and strongly ascending, branchlets woolly to floccose.
Leaves deciduous at fruiting stage; lamina cordate to ovate, sometimes ± peltate, 12–30 cm long, 7–20 cm wide; apex acute to acuminate or rarely obtuse; margins entire; upper surface smooth; lower surface with a dense sometimes floccose indumentum; petiole 7–23 cm long.
Inflorescence up to 1.2 m long, glabrescent and sometimes nearly glabrous; flowers and usually peduncles deep purple beneath the indumentum. Petals purple.
Fruit winged.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll communities on exposed rocky summits, cliff edges, and rocky slopes in the Mt Neville area, Grafton district, rare.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Text by M. J. Henwood & R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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