Thymelaeaceae Daphnopsis hellerana is a dioecious shrub or small three which may reach 6 m in height.
Young branches are flexible, golden tomentose and glabrescent, and have few leaves.
Lateral veins are curved and prominenet below. Female flowers are smaller, calyx 5 mm long and golden tomentose outside but glabrous inside, petals 4, scale-like and minute, staminodes 8 or absent, pistil conical and tapering to the stigma. This species was first discovered by Amos Arthur Heller in 1900. It was named by Urban in honor of Heller from duplicates distributed from Heller's collection. The species was not reported again until Mr. Roy O. Woodbury collected it again in 1958 and since that time it has been seen only a few times.