Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris andromedifolia
Common name
Andromeda pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, along streams, and rocky places.Widespread but not Western Slopes.
subsp. andromedifolia Coast, ranges, tablelands, and the ACT.
subsp. confusa ACT and tablelands. Coast and ranges south of Eden. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems rusty hairy with tangled branched hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) partly hidden by simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-5 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, upper surface hairless; lower surface whitish to rusty hairy with sparse to moderate appressed to spreading simple hairs above a whitish tomentum; lateral veins 7–12 pairs, distinct, often rusty, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed to blunt; margins sometimes curved down. Flowers cream to yellow, with 5 petals and 5 sepals 1.5–2.5 mm long, in compact branched clusters 10-80 mm long, 10-80 mm in diameter. Flowers Spring.
subsp. andromedifolia: Leaves 1-5 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, lower surface of the leaves with straight hairs often appressed to the surface, the bracts of the inflorescence usually falling before flowering. Flowers bright yellow.
May be difficult to distinguish from Pomaderris intermedia in the ACT.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
subsp. confusa: Leaves 1.5-4 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, lower surface of the leaves with spreading, curved to wavy stellate and simple hairs, the bracts of the inflorescence persisting until or after flowering. Flowers cream.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Endangered Vic.
PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~andromedifolia (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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