Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris ligustrina subsp. ligustrina
Common name
Privet pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and along rocky streams. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 4.5 m high. Young branchlets rusty stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and with scattered long simple hairs, soon becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–8 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface densely hairy with pale to rusty simple hairs (often appressed on the midvein) over fine stellate hairs, often obscuring the lateral veins, which loop to the inside and do not reach the margins, tips pointed, margins weakly to strongly curved down. Flowers cream or yellow, with 5 sepals 0.8–1.4 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals. Flowers in loose branched pyramidal to almost globular clusters 10–50 mm long.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~ligustrina (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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