Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Pomaderris brogoensis

Common name

A pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, and rocky sites. Coast and ranges, south from the Tuross River.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 9 m high. Branchlets with long spreading rusty simple hairs over a short whitish tomentum. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–2 cm long, 5–14 mm wide, upper surface pale to mid-green, densely covered with minute stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see); lower surface greyish, densely stellate-hairy, lateral veins either obscure or looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips broadly blunt. Flowers yellowish, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals, 0 petals, in branched many-flowered clusters.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~brogoensis  (accessed 2 February, 2021)