Pomaderris intermedia

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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

Other links:     

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

Plant  information

Common name:                Lemon Dogwood

Conservation status:  ...

• This pomaderris is listed as "rare" under the Tasmanian Government Threatened Species Protection Act 1995

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (intermedia) refers to a close association with two other Pomaderris species

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are yellow and arranged in pyramid-shaped to hemispherical panicles 40–150 mm long, each flower on a pedicel 2–5 mm long with bracts at the base but that fall off as the flower opens

• The floral cup is 1.0–1.5 mm long, the sepals 2–3 mm long but fall off as the flowers open, and the petals are spatula-shaped and 2.0–2.5 mm long

• Flowering occurs in September and October

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are broadly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped, 30–100 mm long and 10–50 mm wide with stipules 3–8 mm long at the base but that fall off as the leaf develops

• The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface covered with greyish, star-shaped hairs

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Pomaderris intermedia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 3 m, its branchlets covered with both simple and star-shaped hairs

• Typically grows to a height of up to about 3 m 

Habitat:   

• Grows in forest, woodland and heath

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to south-eastern Australia

• Found from south from the Gibraltar Range National Park in NSW to Western Port and French Island in Victoria, and in scattered locations in Tasmania, including on some Bass Strait islands

Additional notes:    

• Taxonomy

  • Pomaderris intermedia was first formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber

Sources of information:

• (2023)