Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris helianthemifolia subsp. hispida
Common name
Blunt-leaf pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Rocky places and near streams. West of Batlow. Tablelands and western edge of the ranges between the Hume Highway and south of Queanbeyan. In Victoria along the NSW border.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems greyish to rusty stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), rarely with scattered simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–4.5 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, upper surface bristly with scattered simple hairs; lower surface greyish and densely stellate-hairy, veins covered with long simple hairs, lateral veins obscure or looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips blunt, margins curved down. Flowers cream or yellow, with 5 sepals each 1.5–2 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in branched clusters, usually about 20–50-flowered.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~helianthemifolia (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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