Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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

Common name Silky pomaderris, Bent pomaderris Family Rhamnaceae Where found Open forest, shrubland, rocky areas, and along streams. Morton National Park and Wollemi National Park. Notes Shrub to about 2 m high. Branchlets shining golden-brown with short appressed simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–3 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, upper surface hairless; lower surface with appressed shining golden-brown simple hairs, entirely obscuring the underlying stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lateral veins obscure, tips blunt, margins curved down. Flowers cream to yellow, with 5 sepals each 1.7–2.1 mm long, falling early, and 0 petals, in branched clusters 10–30 mm long and wide. Flowers Oct. Vulnerable Australia. 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. Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic. NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10658 (accessed 7 January 2021) PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~sericea (accessed 7 January 2021)

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