Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris mediora

Common name

A pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Heath and stunted shrubland on ridges and headlands. Coast and ranges north of Bulli Lookout.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high or sprawling. New growth hairy with greyish to rusty long shaggy simple hairs overlying greyish stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–2 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, upper surface hairless, smooth; lower surface hairy with greyish or yellow-rusty long shaggy simple hairs and dense white-greyish stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lateral veins obscure, margins curved down to occasionally rolled down. Flowers cream, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals, and 0 petals, in short branched clusters.

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