Pomaderris adnata

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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

Other links:     

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

Plant  information

Common name:                ...

Conservation status:  ...

• Classified as an endangered species under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW)

• Threats to its survival include small number of species, dumping of rubbish, road maintenance and weed invasion

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are pale yellow, borne in small clusters in leaf axils

• Flowering occurs in spring

Fruit:                         

• The seed capsule is covered in star-shaped hairs

Leaves:         

• The leaves are narrowly oval shaped, 1.5–3 cm long, 3–8 cm wide

• Upper side smooth, under side covered in greyish star-shaped hairs, leaf edges curved downward, smooth to more or less with deep, wavy depressions

• The smaller leaf veins are sparsely covered with flattened, yellowish to rusty or greyish hairs and greyish star-shaped hairs

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A spreading shrub  1–2 m high with soft, greyish, star shaped hairs on the new growth

Habitat:   

• This species grows in dry sclerophyll forest and woodland heath at one location, on the escarpment south of Sydney at Sublime Point

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to NSW

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Pomaderris adnata was first formally described in 1997 by Neville Grant Walsh and Fiona Coates 

  • The description was published in the journal Muelleria

Sources of information:

• (2023)