Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris discolor
Common name
A pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Coast and ranges. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 5 m high. Stems with a whitish to greyish stellate tomentum (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and with scattered longer simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–9.5 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, upper surface hairless; lower surface with a short whitish to greyish stellate tomentum, longer hairs usually confined to the main vein, lateral veins usually distinct, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed, margins curved down. Flowers pale yellowish to cream, with 5 sepals 1.2–1.7 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals or 5 petals falling early, in many-flowered branched clusters 30–60 mm long.
May be difficult to distingush from Pomaderris elliptica var. elliptica.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~discolor (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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