Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris pallida

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Murrumbidgee River, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murrumbidgee River, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Pale pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland near rivers and streams. ACT. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges south of the Hume Highway. Occasionally Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems with a short whitish stellate tomentum (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.8-2 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, upper surface dark green, velvety with a covering of minute stellate hairs lower surface very shortly whitish stellate-hairy, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, margins entire. Flowers cream to pale yellow, with 0 petals, and 5 sepals, in branched clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

Vulnerable ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10653  (accessed 7 January 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~pallida  (accessed 7 January 2021)