Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris subcapitata
Common name
Convex pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, remnant vegetation on roadsides, rocky sites, and along streams. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park and north to near Tumut. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Stems covered with whitish stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and longer spreading rusty simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7-4.5 cm long, 5-25 mm wide, velvety with simple hairs, upper surface with veins deeply impressed, lower surface densely hairy with whitish to greyish stellate hairs, and long simple rusty hairs along the lateral veins and margins, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the margins, tips blunt or notched. Flowers cream to yellow, with 5 petals each 1.5–2.5 mm long, (sometimes 0) and 5 sepals each 2–2.5 mm long, falling early. Flowers in dense to loose almost round clusters about 20–50 mm in diameter.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~subcapitata (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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