Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pomaderris walshii

Common name

Carrington Falls pomaderris

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Open grassy forest, shrubland, and near streams. North of Fitzroy Falls Reservoir and above Carringon Falls (south-east of Robertson).

Notes

Shrub or tree to 3 m high. Young stems with appressed, white or silvery to rusty simple hairs mixed with white stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 3.6–6 cm long, 14–22 mm wide, upper surface green and hairless, lower surface moderately hairy with loosely appressed, white-silvery simple hairs and dense white stellate hairs, tips pointed or with a long drawn out tip, margins entire, flat or slightly curved down. Flowers cream to yellow, externally hairy with loosely appressed, silvery simple hairs and dense stellate hairs, with 5 sepals each 1.8–2.0 mm long, and 5 petals each 1.7–1.9 mm long, in many-flowered clusters of 20-200 flowers. Flowering: July to November.

Critically endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

Sensitive Species NSW.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos and line drawings:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20054 (accessed 7 January 2021)

PlantNET description with line drawings:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~walshii  (accessed 7 January 2021)