Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris pauciflora
Common name
Mountain pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest, and near streams, sometimes on rocky stream banks. Ranges and tablelands south from west of Mittagong.
Notes
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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