Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris gilmourii

Stem with young seed cases. (var. gilmourii). Photographer Jackie Miles, Deua National Park

Leafy stem (var. gilmourii). Photographer Jackie Miles, Deua National Park

Common name

Grey Deua pomaderris (var. cana)

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Open forest and shrubland on rhyolite outcrops. Mainly ranges west of Moruya, in Deua National Park. One record on the Brogo River in Wadbilliga National Park.

var. cana: Ranges in Deua National Park west of Moruya.

var. gilmourii:  Ranges. Mainly Deua National Park. One record in Wadbilliga National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Young stems with more or less appressed simple or clustered hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–3.5 cm long, 2–12 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface with a short greyish tomentum, all hairs more or less the same length, lateral veins distinct, 3–6 pairs, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins. Flowers cream to yellow, with 5 sepals about 1.5 mm long, falling early,  and 0 petals. flower buds silvery. Flowers in branched clusters shorter than the leaves.  

var. cana:  No dense superficial layer of more or less woolly simple hairs, on the lower surface of the leaves, leaf stalks, branchlets etc. Surfaces appearing dull. Leaf margins neither thickened or hairless, not apparent as a border on either surface. Sepals about 1 mm long. Style hairy above the point of division.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the 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=10651 (accessed 7 January 2021)

var. gilmourii:  A dense superficial layer of appressed simple more or less straight grey hairs, appearing shiny, on the lower surface of the leaves, leaf stalks, branchlets etc. Margins of the leaves thickened and hairless, apparent as a distinct border on lower surface. Sepals about 1.5 mm long. Style hairless above the point of division.

PlantNET description of species and key to varieties:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~gilmourii  (accessed 7 January 2021)