Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Pomaderris ferruginea

Common name

Rusty Pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and stream banks. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Stems moderately to densely hairy with spreading rusty simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–10 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, upper surface hairless and dull; lower surface with longer curly rusty hairs above a whitish tomentum of short stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often giving a rusty appearance, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed to blunt, margins flat to slightly curved down. Flowers whitish to yellow, with 5 sepals each 1.5–2.5 mm long, and 5 petals each 1–2 mm long, rarely absent, in large many-flowered branched clusters 30–100 mm in diameter.

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