Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris adnata

Common name

Sublime Point pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heathy woodland. Known only from one site at Sublime Point, north of Wollongong.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Young stems hairy with greyish stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–3 cm long, 3–8 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface hairy with greyish stellate hairs, lateral veins apparent, with sparse, appressed greyish or yellow to rusty simple hairs and greyish stellate hairs, looping and not reaching the margins, margins curved down and entire to more or less wavy. Flowers cream to pale yellow, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals falling early, and 5 petals on most flowers. Flowers in narrow many-flowered branched clusters. Flowers September.

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 with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10646 (accessed 7 January 2021)

PlantNET description with photos:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~adnata (accessed 7 January 2021)