Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris ledifolia

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

Stems with flower buds and brown bracts. Photographer Jackie Miles

Backs of leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Line drawings. c. flower; flowering branch; leaf lower surface detail. A. Barley, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board 

Common name

Sydney pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Rocky hillsides. Mostly ranges and tablelands. Coastal in the Sydney area and south of Merimbula. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high, sometimes prostrate under extreme conditions. Young stems with short whitish, greyish or rusty, simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface silky with shiny whitish to greyish simple hairs, obscuring the underlying stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often rusty on the midrib, lateral veins usually not apparent, tips pointed, often mucronate, margins thickened but not prominently curved down. Flowers yellow, with 5 sepals 2–2.5 mm long, fallling early, and 5 petals 1.5–2 mm long.  Flowers in compact 2–20-flowered branched clusters 10–40 mm in diameter.

Vulnerable Vic.

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