Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris parrisiae
Common name
Parris' pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, and rocky areas. Ranges south from Wadbilliga National Park. Possibly coastal at Green Cape south of Eden.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 9 m high. New growth densely covered with appressed silvery simple hairs, often appearing coppery-coloured. Older stems almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 3–10 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface silvery to whitish hairy with simple hairs above a fine stellate-tomentum (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lateral veins fawn-coloured, raised above the surrounding hair layer, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed. Flowers cream to pale yellow, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals, 5 petals, in sparse branched clusters.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the 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=10654 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~parrisiae (accessed 7 January 2021)
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