Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris costata
Common name
Veined pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Open forest, shrubland, rocky sites, and near streams. ACT, Tablelands in Tallaganda State Forest. Ranges south from Deua National Park. Coastal south of Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. New growth and young stems covered with fawn to golden or rusty simple and stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–5 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, upper surface hairless; lower surface densely hairy with whitish or pale to golden hairs, often obscuring the underlying stellate hairs. Hairs simple and mostly lying in the same direction; lateral veins pale brown to rusty, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips mostly blunt, margins flat or weakly wavy. Flowers with 5 white to yellow sepals 1.2–1.8 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in large many-flowered branched clusters 30–50 mm long.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~costata (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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