Pomaderris walshii

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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

Other links:     

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

Plant  information

Common name:                ... 

Conservation status:  Endanged

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

• The main threats to the species include flood damage during high rainfall events, inappropriate fire regimes and the species' small population size and limited distribution.

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (walshii) honours Neville Grant Walsh

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are borne in pyramid-shaped to hemispherical clusters of 20 to 100 near the ends of branchlets, the clusters 40–65 mm long and wide

• The flowers are cream-coloured to yellow and covered with hairs similar to those on the young stems, each flower on a pedicel 1.5–4.3 mm long

• The sepals are 1.8–2.0 mm long, the petals 1.7–1.9 mm long, the stamens 2.0–2.5 mm long and the style 1.6–1.9 mm long

• Flowering occurs from July to November

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, mostly 43–52 mm long and 14–19 mm wide 

• On a petiole 4–10 mm long with stipules 2–6 mm long at the base but that fall off as the leaf matures

Stem & branches: 

• Young stems are covered with silvery to rust-coloured simple hairs and white, star-shaped hairs

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m

Habitat:   

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to a restricted area of NSW

• Grows in shrubland near watercourses and is only known from the upper Kangaroo River and its tributaries, above the escarpment near Robertson on the Central Tablelands of NSW

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Pomaderris walshii was first formally described in 2005 by Jacqueline C. Millott and Keith Leonard McDougall in the journal Telopea 

  • Specimens where collected in 2003 by Millott from Budderoo National Park

Sources of information:

• (2023)