Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris prunifolia var. prunifolia
Common name
Plum-leaf pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Woodland, rocky slopes, and along streams. Tablelands, ACT, and ranges. Sydney area. Rarely coastal elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Stems with dense, rusty, stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.2–8 cm long, 7–35 mm wide, upper surface very wrinkled, rough with simple hairs, rarely more or less hairless; lower surface more or less rusty with stellate hairs, secondary veins commonly reaching the margins (rarely looping to the inside) and terminating in minute hair tufts, tips blunt or pointed, margin flat to weakly curved down, more or less toothed or obscurely wavy, rarely entire. Flowers cream to yellow, with 0 petals and 5 sepals 1.3–1.9 mm long, falling early, in short branched clusters to about 8 cm long.
Endangered population in the Parramatta, Auburn, Strathfield and Bankstown Local Government Areas (as Pomaderris prunifolia).
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 or a part of a threatened ecological community.
Regarded as Indigenous/Naturalised in the 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=10655 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~prunifolia (accessed 7 January 2021)
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