Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris brunnea
Common name
Brown pomaderris, Rufous pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and stream banks. Around the Colo, Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers, including the Bargo area and near Camden. Also in Gippsland, Vic.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. Stems with long spreading brownish, greyish, or pale simple hairs above a short white tomentum. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–4 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, upper surface dark green and hairless with veins impressed, lateral veins extending to the margins, terminating in minute hair tufts; lower surface densely hairy with long brownish or greyish hairs above a short white or greyish stellate tomentum, margins more or less toothed, and sometimes curved down, tips blunt. Flowers yellowish to cream, externally grey- or brownish-hairy, with 5 sepals each 1.5–1.7 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in dense many-flowered branched clusters 30–50 mm long overall. Flowers Spring.
Vulnerable Australia. 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.
Vulnerable Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10647 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~brunnea (accessed 7 January 2021)
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