Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris cotoneaster
Common name
Cotoneaster pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry forest, rocky areas, stream banks, and gullies. Widespread. Rare in the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. Stems with a dense whitish stellate hairy tomentum (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–5 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, upper surface more or less bristly, hairs scattered to very sparse, at least some hairs stellate; lower surface a fine white mat of loose stellate hairs, occasionally with sparse, rusty, stellate and rarely simple hairs mostly on the veins, lateral veins impressed above, strongly raised on lower surface, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips blunt to notched, margins flat. Flowers creamish, externally whitish with stellate and sparse simple hairs, with 5 sepals 1.6–2 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in many-flowered branched clusters 30–100 mm long. Flowers spring.
Endangered 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.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10648 (accessed 7 January 2021)
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~cotoneaster (accessed 7 January 2021)
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