Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Pomaderris elliptica var. elliptica

Common name

A pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland. Coast and ranges, occasionally on the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m tall. Stems densely short stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Longer hairs absent. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-12 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface densely and minutely white stellate-hairy, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed or blunt, margins flat, and entire to more or less finely scalloped. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals 1.5–2 mm long, and 5 sepals falling early, in large branched clusters to about 120 mm in diameter.

May be difficult to distingush from Pomaderris intermedia and Pomaderris discolor.

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