Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris virgata
Common name
Upright pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest and rocky areas. South of the Kings Highway. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 8 m high. Younger branchlets often reddish, densely hairy with simple coppery hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–10 cm long, 7–22 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface densely silky with whitish, cream, yellowish, or coppery simple hairs, the hairs of the veins and margins more strongly coloured and appressed, lateral veins looping to the inside and not reaching the leaf margins, tips pointed or blunt, margins curved down. Flowers yellow, 1–1.5 mm long, with 5 sepals each 1.5–2.2 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals. Flowers in dense branched pyramidal clusters 20–70 mm long.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~virgata (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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