Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Pomaderris pauciflora
Mountain pomaderris
Rhamnaceae
Forest, and near streams, sometimes on rocky stream banks. Ranges and tablelands south from west of Mittagong.
Shrub to 3 m high. Stems densely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–3 cm long, 2–15 mm wide. upper surface bristly with scattered simple hairs, sometimes the hairs clustered and more or less stellate; lower surface greyish with dense pale stellate hairs, and scattered, longer, rusty, simple or stellate hairs; lateral veins visible on both surfaces, impressed on the upper surface, raised and rusty on the lower surface; looping to the inside and not reaching the margins, tips blunt, margins more or less scalloped, sometimes curved down. Flowers cream, with 5 sepals each 1.2–2 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in narrow leafy branched clusters, not or barely longer than the leaves.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~pauciflora (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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