Pomaderris flabellaris
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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{{Speciesbox
|name = Fan pomaderris
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|genus = Pomaderris
|species = flabellaris
|authority = (F.Muell. ex Reissek) J.M.Black{{cite web |title=Pomaderris flabellaris |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/94067 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=14 February 2022}}
|synonyms = Trymalium flabellare F.Muell. ex Reissek
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Pomaderris flabellaris, commonly known as fan pomaderris,{{cite web |title=Pomaderris flabellaris |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Pomaderris_flabellaris |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=14 February 2022}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a low shrub with fan-shaped leaves, and small clusters of woolly-hairy flowers.
Description
Pomaderris flabellaris is a shrub that typically grows to a height of about {{cvt|1|m}}. The leaves are fan-shaped, {{cvt|4–8|mm}} long and {{cvt|5–13|mm}} wide, usually with wavy or toothed edges, on a petiole {{cvt|2–5|mm}} long. Both surfaces are covered with star-shaped hairs, densely so on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in small groups up to {{cvt|20|mm}} long in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a hairy pedicel about {{cvt|1|mm}} long. The sepals are densely covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs and are {{cvt|2.0–2.5|mm}} long but there are no petals. Flowering occurs from August to October.{{cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |title=The Pomaderris oraria F.Muell. complex in Australia |journal=Muelleria |date=1990 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=279–280 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/203206#page/143/mode/1up |access-date=14 February 2022}}
Taxonomy
Fan pomaderris was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek who gave it the name Trymalium flabellare in the journal Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkundein from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller.{{cite web |title=Trymalium flabellare |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/507046 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=14 February 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Reissek |first1=Siegfried |title=Plantae Muellerianae Australasicae – Celastrineae, Rhamneae |journal=Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde |date=1858 |volume=29 |issue=3 |page=281 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10873#page/286/mode/1up |access-date=14 February 2022}} In 1926, John McConnell Black changed the name to Pomaderris flabellaris.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris flabellaris |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/517342 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=14 February 2022}}
Distribution and habitat
Pomaderris flabellaris grows in shallow soil and sand dunes on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.