Pomaderris costata
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
|genus = Pomaderris
|species = costata
|authority = N.A.Wakef.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris costata |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/93720 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=29 January 2022}}
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Pomaderris costata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with densely hairy branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and panicles of cream-coloured or white flowers.
Description
Pomaderris costata is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1–4|m}}, its branchlets densely covered with rust-coloured simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, {{cvt|25–50|mm}} long and {{cvt|15–35|mm}} wide, the upper surface glabrous and the lower surface densely covered with soft, golden-brown hairs. The flowers are cream-coloured or white and borne in dense, more or less pyramid-shaped panicles {{cvt|30–50|mm}} long, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|1.5–3|mm}} long. The sepals are {{cvt|1.2–1.8|mm}} long but fall off as the flowers open, and there are no petals. Flowering occurs in October and November and the fruit is a hairy capsule.{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Pomaderris costata |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~costata |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=29 January 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |title=Pomaderris costata |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/adc65b71-bb38-4f8d-a402-8697e5c04afe |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=29 January 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Betty |title=Pomaderris costata |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/pomaderris_costata.htm |publisher=Lucid Keys |access-date=29 January 2022}}
Taxonomy
Pomaderris costata was first formally described in 1951 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens he collected near the Brodribb River in 1947.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris costata |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/516827 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=29 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Wakefield |first1=Norman A. |title=New species of Pomaderris |journal=The Victorian Naturalist |date=1951 |volume=68 |issue=8 |page=141 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127325#page/153/mode/1up |access-date=29 January 2022}} The specific epithet (costata) means "ribbed".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=171 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)