Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris bodalla

Flowering stem. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, north of Bermagui

Common name

Bodalla pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, stream banks, and gullies. Coastal south from Batemans Bay to south of Eden. Ranges east from Brown Mountain, and inland from Bodalla. The largest population occusrs north of the area covered by this key, in Wollemi National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Young stems with spreading rusty simple hairs and dense greyish stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 2–3 cm long, 12–15 mm wide, upper surface dark green and hairless with veins not or slightly impressed, obscure or looping and not reaching the margins, lower surface hairy with sparse spreading rusty hairs above short greyish stellate hairs,  margins entire but more or less wavy. Flowers cream, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals falling early, and 0 petals, in many-flowered branched clusters.

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=20031 (accessed 7 January 2021)

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