Pomaderris

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperm > Eudicots> Rosids > Rosales > Fabids > Rhamnaceae > Pomaderris  

Other links:     

P adnata,   P apetala, P gilmourii,   P intermedia,   P paniculos,   P pilifera,   P reperta,   P walshii

Plant  information

Common name:                unknown  

Conservation status:  unknown

Etymology:   

• The genus name means "a covering of leather or skin" referring to the valves of the fruit

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged in small cymes, the groups arranged in racemes or panicles, and are usually yellow

• The flowers have five sepals but the petals are usually absent or fall off as the flower opens, and there are five stamens in each flower

• The flower parts are covered with woolly, star-shaped and simple hairs

Fruit:                         

• The fruit is a capsule that eventually splits into three valves

Leaves:         

• The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches and are simple

• With brown stipules at the base of the petiole but that are usually shed as the leaf matures

• The lower surfaces of the leaves are covered with woolly, star-shaped and simple hairs

Stem & branches: 

• The young stemsare covered with woolly, star-shaped and simple hairs

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Usually shrubs, sometimes small trees with simple leaves

• A distinctive feature of the leaves, branches, and twigs, is that they are hairy

Habitat:   

• x 

Distribution:                  

• All Australian states and the ACT, but not the NT 

• In both the North and South Islands of NZ

Species:                     

• World:             73 species 

• Australia:       65 species (the others are from NZ)

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen

• Ecology

  • Pomaderris species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus ligniveren.

• Use in horticulture

  • A few of species in this genus are known to horticulture; the most commonly cultivated species is P. aspera, the hazel pomaderris

• Species list

  • The following is a list of Pomaderris species accepted by Plants of the World Online as at December 2021 other than P. ferruginea which is accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

    1. Pomaderris adnata N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.)

    2. Pomaderris amoena Colenso (N.Z.)

    3. Pomaderris andromedifolia A.Cunn. (Qld., N.S.W., Vic.)

    4. Pomaderris angustifolia N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)

    5. Pomaderris apetala Labill. (Tas., Vic., N.Z.)

    6. Pomaderris argyrophylla N.A.Wakef. – silver pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld.)

    7. Pomaderris aspera Sieber ex DC. – hazel pomaderris (Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas.)

    8. Pomaderris aurea N.A.Wakef. (Vic.)

    9. Pomaderris betulina A.Cunn. ex Hook. – birch pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.)

    10. Pomaderris bodalla N.G.Walsh & Coates – Bodalla pomaderris (N.S.W.)

    11. Pomaderris brevifolia N.G.Walsh (W.A.)

    12. Pomaderris briagolensis Messina (Vic.)

    13. Pomaderris brogoensis N.G.Walsh (N.S.W.)

    14. Pomaderris brunnea N.A.Wakef. – rufous pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.)

    15. Pomaderris buchanensis N.G.Walsh (Vic.)

    16. Pomaderris canescens (Benth.) N.A.Wakef. (Qld.)

    17. Pomaderris cinerea Benth. (N.S.W.)

    18. Pomaderris clivicola (Benth.) N.A.Wakef. (Qld.)

    19. Pomaderris cocoparrana N.G.Walsh – Cocoparra pomaderris (N.S.W.)

    20. Pomaderris coomingalensis N.G.Walsh & Coates (Qld.)

    21. Pomaderris costata N.A.Wakef. (Vic., N.S.W.)

    22. Pomaderris cotoneaster N.A.Wakef. – cotoneaster pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.)

    23. Pomaderris crassifolia N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W., Qld.)

    24. Pomaderris delicata N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.)

    25. Pomaderris discolor (Vent.) Poir. (N.S.W., Vic.)

    26. Pomaderris edgerleyi Hook.f. (N.Z.)

    27. Pomaderris elachophylla F.Muell. – lacy pomaderris, small leaf pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)

    28. Pomaderris elliptica Labill. (N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)

    29. Pomaderris eriocephala N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)

    30. Pomaderris ferruginea Sieber ex Fenzl – rusty pomaderris (Qld, NSW, Vic.)

    31. Pomaderris flabellaris (F.Muell. ex Reissek) J.M.Black – fan pomaderris (S.A.)

    32. Pomaderris forrestiana F.Muell. (W.A., S.A.)

    33. Pomaderris gilmourii N.G.Walsh (N.S.W.)

    34. Pomaderris grandis F.Muell. – large pomaderris (W.A.)

    35. Pomaderris graniticola (N.G.Walsh & Coates) K.L.Mcdougall & Millott (Qld., N.S.W.)

    36. Pomaderris halmaturina J.M.Black (S.A., Vic.)

    37. Pomaderris hamiltonii L.B.Moore – pale-flowered kūmarahou (NZ)

    38. Pomaderris helianthemifolia (Reissek) N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Vic.)

    39. Pomaderris intermedia Sieber ex DC. – lemon dogwood (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.)

    40. Pomaderris kumeraho A.Cunn. – kūmarahou, gum-digger's soap (N.Z.)

    41. Pomaderris lanigera (Andrews) Sims – woolly pomaderris (Qld., N.S.W., Vic.)

    42. Pomaderris ledifolia A.Cunn. – Sydney pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.)

    43. Pomaderris ligustrina Sieber ex DC. (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.)

    44. Pomaderris mediora N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.)

    45. Pomaderris myrtilloides Fenzl (W.A.)

    46. Pomaderris nitidula (Benth.) N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Qld.)

    47. Pomaderris notata S.T.Blake – McPherson Range pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld.)

    48. Pomaderris obcordata Fenzl – wedge-leaved pomaderris (S.A., presumed extinct in Vic.)

    49. Pomaderris oblongifolia N.G.Walsh (Vic.)

    50. Pomaderris oraria F.Muell. ex Reissek – Bassian dogwood (Tas, Vic.)

    51. Pomaderris pallida N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T.)

    52. Pomaderris paniculosa F.Muell. ex Reissek – scurfy pomaderris (W.A., S.A., Vic., Tas., N.Z.)

    53. Pomaderris parrisiae N.G.Walsh (N.S.W.)

    54. Pomaderris pauciflora N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Vic.)

    55. Pomaderris phylicifolia Lodd. ex Link – narrow-leaf pomaderris (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas., N.Z.)

    56. Pomaderris pilifera N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)

    57. Pomaderris precaria N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.)

    58. Pomaderris prunifolia Fenzl – plum leaf pomaderris (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)

    59. Pomaderris queenslandica C.T.White – scant pomaderris (Qld., N.S.W.)

    60. Pomaderris racemosa Hook. (S.A., Tas., Vic.)

    61. Pomaderris reperta N.G.Walsh & Coates – Denman pomaderris (NSW)

    62. Pomaderris rotundifolia (F.Muell.) Rye (W.A.)

    63. Pomaderris rugosa Cheeseman (N.Z.)

    64. Pomaderris sericea N.A.Wakef. – bent pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.)

    65. Pomaderris subcapitata N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)

    66. Pomaderris subplicata N.G.Walsh (Vic.)

    67. Pomaderris tropica N.A.Wakef. (Qld.)

    68. Pomaderris vacciniifolia Reissek – round leaf pomaderris (Vic.)

    69. Pomaderris vellea N.A.Wakef. – woolly pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld.)

    70. Pomaderris velutina J.H.Willis – velvet pomaderris, velvety pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.)

    71. Pomaderris virgata N.G.Walsh – upright pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.)

    72. Pomaderris viridis N.G.Walsh (N.S.W., Vic.)

    73. Pomaderris walshii Millott & K.L.McDougall – Carrington Falls pomaderris (N.S.W.)

Sources of information:

• (2023)