Description: Asteropeia micraster is a shrub to small tree restricted to littoral forest on sand from Tampolo STF to Fort Dauphin. It can be distinguished from its presumed closest relatives, A. mcphersonii and A. labatii, with which it shares sessile flowers subtended by bracteoles, by its subcoriaceous leaves that are 3 times as long as broad, and by a cupuliform calyx in fruit, with lobes that are ascending to erect, concave, and less than 5 mm long.
