Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris angustifolia
Common name
Narrow-leaved pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, shrubland, gullies, and along streams. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems greyish, stellate hairy, later becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4-2.7 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, upper surface rough, with scattered to dense stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lower surface with a dense pale stellate tomentum, lateral veins either obscure or looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips blunt, margins curved to rolled down. Flowers cream or yellow, with 0 petals, and 5 sepals 1.8 mm long, falling early. Flowers fragrant. Flowers in 2–20-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~angustifolia (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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