Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris delicata
Common name
Delicate pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry open forest. Two sites on the tablelands: between Goulburn and Bungonia, and east of Tarago.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Young stems with sparse, loosely appressed greyish yellow or rusty simple hairs and dense greyish yellow stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, upper surface hairless; lower surface hairy with greyish stellate hairs, mid vein and lateral veins with pale or rusty simple hairs, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips cuneate; margins sometimes slightly curved down. Flowers golden-yellow, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals, and 5 petals, in branched clusters 20–50 mm in diameter.
Critically endangered Australia. Critically endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10649 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~delicata (accessed 7 January 2021)
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