Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris brogoensis

Flowers. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stem. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, north of Tathra

Flowering tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, and rocky sites. Coast and ranges, south from the Tuross River.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 9 m high. Branchlets with long spreading rusty simple hairs over a short whitish tomentum. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–2 cm long, 5–14 mm wide, upper surface pale to mid-green, densely covered with minute stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see); lower surface greyish, densely stellate-hairy, lateral veins either obscure or looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips broadly blunt. Flowers yellowish, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals, 0 petals, in branched many-flowered clusters.

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