Pomaderris argyrophylla
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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| name = Silver pomaderris
| image = Pomaderris argyrophylla.jpg
| image_caption = Pomaderris argyrophylla in the ANBG
| genus = Pomaderris
| species = argyrophylla
| authority = N.A.Wakef.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris argyrophylla |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/93323 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=28 December 2021}}
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Pomaderris argyrophylla, commonly known as silver pomaderris,{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwenneth J. |title=Pomaderris argyrophylla |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~argyrophylla |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney |accessdate=28 December 2021}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with lance-shaped leaves and white to cream-coloured or yellow flowers.
Description
Pomaderris argyrophylla is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1-6|m}}, its new growth covered with coppery-coloured hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, {{cvt|50–120|mm}} long and {{cvt|15–30|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|6–13|mm}} long with narrowly triangular stipules {{cvt|4.5–5.5|mm}} long at the base. The lower surface of the leaves is covered with felt-like white hairs. The flowers are borne in panicles and are white to cream-coloured or yellow, each flower on a pedicel about {{cvt|2–4|mm}} long. The sepals are {{cvt|1.3–2.0|mm}} long, there are usually no petals, and the stamens are about {{cvt|1.5|mm}} long. The fruit is about {{cvt|3.0–3.5|mm}} long and covered with long, silvery-grey hairs.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris argyrophylla |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/pomaderris_argyrophylla.htm |publisher=Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants |access-date=27 December 2021}}
Taxonomy
Pomaderris argyrophylla was first formally described in 1951 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens collected by Cyril Tenison White on the Blackall Range near Cooloolabin in 1943.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris argyrophylla |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/516266 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=28 December 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Wakefield |first1=Norman A. |title=New species of Pomaderris |journal=The Victorian Naturalist |date=1951 |volume=68 |issue=8 |page=142 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127325#page/154/mode/1up |access-date=28 December 2021}} The specific epithet (argyrophylla) means "silvery-leaved".{{cite book |author=Francis Aubie Sharr |author-link=Francis Aubie Sharr |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, Western Australia |isbn=9780958034180 |page=137}}
Distribution and habitat
This pomaderris grows in moist forest, often in gullies, at altitudes between {{cvt|400 and 1100|m}} and occurs from north-east Queensland and south to the Barrington Tops in New South Wales.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales