Pomaderris reperta

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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

Other links:     

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

Plant  information

Common name:                ...

Conservation status:  ...

• Listed as "critically endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the NSW Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

• The main threats to the species include its small population size and limited distribution and drought

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (reperta) means "to rediscover", referring its not having been seen between 1961 and 1995

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are borne in short, dense panicles 30–40 mm long with ten to thirty cream-coloured flowers 

• Densely covered with silvery or pale rusty simple hairs and greyish star-shaped hairs on the back

• Each flower is borne on a pedicel 1.5–3 mm long, the sepals 2.3–2.8 mm long, and there are usually no petals

• Flowering occurs in October 

Fruit:                         

The fruit is dark, greyish brown and about 3.5 mm long

Leaves:         

• The leaves are elliptic to broadly elliptic or egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–35 mm long and 8–20 mm wide 

• On a petiole 3–10 mm long with egg-shaped stipules 3–5 mm long at the base, but that fall off as the leaf develops

• The upper surface of the leaves is covered with short, velvety hairs and the lower surface is densely covered with white or greyish, star-shaped hairs

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m 

• Its new growth densely covered with shaggy, rust-coloured, simple and star-shaped hairs

Habitat:   

• Grows in woodland on soil derived from sandstone near Denman in the upper Hunter Valley of NSW

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to a restricted area of NSW

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Was first formally described in 1997 by Neville Grant Walsh and Fiona Coates in the journal Muelleria 

  • Specimens were collected by Peter Craig Jobson near Denman in 1995

Sources of information:

• (2023)