Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris elliptica var. elliptica
Common name
A pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Coast and ranges, occasionally on the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Stems densely short stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Longer hairs absent. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-12 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface densely and minutely white stellate-hairy, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed or blunt, margins flat, and entire to more or less finely scalloped. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals 1.5–2 mm long, and 5 sepals falling early, in large branched clusters to about 120 mm in diameter.
May be difficult to distingush from Pomaderris intermedia and Pomaderris discolor.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~elliptica (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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