Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris velutina

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Denise Grieg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Denise Grieg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Line drawings. c. flower; leaf lower surface detail; leaf transverse section. A. Barley, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board 

Common name

Velvety pomaderris, Velvet Pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, rocky sites, and along streams. Widespread but not coastal.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), with longer rusty simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.8–4.5 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, upper surface densely velvety with minute stellate hairs, grey-green, lower surface greyish, densely stellate-hairy, with scattered, rusty, thread-like hairs on the veins, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips blunt. Flowers yellow, with 5 sepals each 1.5–2.5 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in branched clusters mostly 20–80 mm long.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~velutina  (accessed 2 February, 2021)