Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris lanigera

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Expedition Range National Park SE of Emerald, Qld

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Murrah State Forest south of Bermagui

Flowering stems with young leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Line drawings. a. leaf outline; flower; leaf lower surface detail; leaf transverse section. A. Barley, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board 

Common name

Woolly pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 5 m high. Stems moderately to densely hairy with rusty curly simple hairs obscuring fine stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–13 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, upper surface dull green, sparsely to moderately hairy with simple hairs, sometimes bristly; lower surface usually with short whitish and longer rusty curly simple hairs over short stellate hairs, with at least the lateral veins appearing rusty, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed or blunt, margins flat. Flowers golden, with 5 sepals, each 2–3 mm long, falling early, and 5 petals, each 1.5–2.5 mm long, in large branched clusters 40–120 mm in diameter.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~lanigera  (accessed 2 February, 2021)