Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris intermedia
Common name
Golden pomaderris, Lemon dogwood
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and gullies. Coast and ranges. Tablelands mainly south of the Hume Highway. in the ACT, mainly on Black Mountain.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems with scattered to clustered simple hairs over a short dense white to greyish stellate tomentum,(needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-12 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, upper surface hairless and glossy, lower surface dull whitish to greyish stellate hairy with scattered longer, rarely rusty, simple hairs, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed to blunt, margins flat. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, and 5 sepals 2–3 mm long, in large rather loose branched clusters. Flowers Spring-Summer.
May be difficult to distingush from Pomaderris andromedifolia subsp. andromedifolia in the ACT, and from Pomaderris elliptica var. elliptica.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~intermedia (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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