Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris viridis

Common name

A pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Wet forest, rocky sites, and along streams. South of Brogo and Nimmitabel. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 5 m high. Young stems densely covered with pale stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–5.5 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, upper surface somewhat sparsely covered with stellate hairs, lower surface sparsely covered with pale stellate hairs, tips blunt, margins flat or weakly curved down, and irregularly toothed to scalloped or rarely entire. Flowers cream to pale yellowish-green, with 5 sepals each 1.2–1.5 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in slender branched clusters mostly 50–80 mm long, composed of numerous sub-clusters each of about 4–10 flowers.

Endangered Vic.

PlantNET notes that most collections of Pomaderris viridis indicate association with Pomaderris aspera and Pomaderris cinerea, and it is believed to be likely that it is either a hybrid with these two species as parents, or it is a true-breeding species of hybrid ancestry.

PlantNET description with line drawing of leaf:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~viridis (accessed 30 January, 2021)