Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris cinerea
Common name
White Pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast and ranges, from west of Mogo to south of Eden.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 10 m high. Branches slender, ribbed, densely hairy with short fawn or white stellate hairs, usually eventually becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–5 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, upper surface greyish, more or less velvety with very fine hairs; lower surface densely covered with white stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), main vein more or less rusty hairy, lateral veins more or less rusty and more prominent on the lower surface, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed to blunt. Flowers pale yellow, with 5 sepals each 1-1.5 mm long, and 0 petals, in branched clusters.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~cinerea (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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