Compilation
Allophylus decipiens

Many-stemmed shrub; branchlets silver-grey, appressed-pubescent when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 0·5–3·5 cm. long, appressed- or crisped-pubescent; terminal leaflet usually c. 1 1/2times as long as the lateral ones; petiolules up to 1 mm. long or leaflets subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 1–4·5 × 0·5–2·5 cm., papyraceous, shortly and sparsely appressed- or crisped-pubescent on the midrib and lateral nerves and with occasional tufts of hairs on the under surface of the axils of the latter, otherwise glabrous, lobed usually to about halfway to the midrib (at least in some leaves), lobes generally rounded but apex occasionally acute, base cuneate and often narrowed; lateral nerves 3–6 pairs. Inflorescence 1·5–6 cm. long, unbranched, appressed-pubescent. Flowers whitish, in few-flowered very shortly pedunculate cymules; pedicels up to 2 mm. long. Outer sepals 1·3 × 1·3 mm., subcircular, inner l·3 × 1 mm., elliptic, all glabrous or nearly so. Petals 1·2 × 1 mm., obovate. Stamens with pilose filaments 2 mm. long; Staminodes with filaments 0·7 mm. long in female flowers. Style 1 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit (not known from our area) 3·5 mm. in diam., globose.