Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Pomaderris parrisiae
Parris' pomaderris
Rhamnaceae
Forest, shrubland, and rocky areas. Ranges south from Wadbilliga National Park. Possibly coastal at Green Cape south of Eden.
Shrub or tree to 9 m high. New growth densely covered with appressed silvery simple hairs, often appearing coppery-coloured. Older stems almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 3–10 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface silvery to whitish hairy with simple hairs above a fine stellate-tomentum (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lateral veins fawn-coloured, raised above the surrounding hair layer, looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed. Flowers cream to pale yellow, mostly about 2 mm long, with 5 sepals, 5 petals, in sparse branched clusters.
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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10654 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~parrisiae (accessed 7 January 2021)
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