Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris elachophylla
Common name
Lacy pomaderris, Small leaf pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Wet forest, stream banks, and gullies. Tablelands in Tinderry Nature Reserve east of the ACT. Ranges south from east of Nimmitabel.
Notes
Shrub to 3.5 m high. Branchlets densely rusty stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, often almost opposite each other, 0.2–1.1 cm long and 1.5–8 mm wide, tips blunt to notched, upper surface dark green, sparsely hairy with simple or stellate hairs; lower surface whitish with dense stellate hairs, some hairs along the veins rusty, lateral veins obscure, tips blunt to notched, margins flat or curved down. Flowers cream to yellowish, with 5 sepals each 1.4–1.6 mm long, and 0 petals, single or in small clusters.
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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10650 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~elachophylla (accessed 7 January 2021)
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