Pomaderris intermedia
Lemon Dogwood
Lemon Dogwood
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
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formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber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)