Pomaderris prunifolia
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|genus = Pomaderris
|species = prunifolia
|authority = Fenzl{{cite web |title=Pomaderris prunifolia |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/112884 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=14 October 2020}}
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Pomaderris prunifolia, commonly known as plum leaf pomaderris,{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen |title=Pomaderris prunifolia |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~prunifolia |website=PlantNET-NSW flora online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney |accessdate=14 October 2020}} is a plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It has slightly toothed, wrinkled green leaves, stems with rusty coloured star-shaped hairs and yellow flowers.
Description
Pomaderris prunifolia is a shrub to {{cvt|4|m}} high with rusty coloured star-shaped hairs on the stems. The leaves are egg-shaped to oblong to more or less elliptic, {{cvt|2-4|cm}} long, {{cvt|8-15|mm}} wide, upper surface wrinkled, rough, with simple hairs or rarely smooth, margins more or less toothed, underside with more or less rusty coloured star-shaped hairs and ending with a broadly acute apex. The yellow flowers are borne in a panicle formation on a short pedicel. The seed capsule has long, rusty hairs and the hypanthium long whitish hairs.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris prunifolia |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/threatened-species/nsw-threatened-species-scientific-committee/determinations/final-determinations/1996-1999/pomaderris-prunifolia-a-shrub--endangered-population-listing |website=NSW Threatened Species |publisher=NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment |accessdate=15 October 2020}}
Taxonomy
Pomaderris prunifolia was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl and the description was published in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris prunifolia |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/546213 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=16 October 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Fenzl |first1=Eduard |title=Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.64405481&view=1up&seq=32 |website=HathiTrust |accessdate=16 October 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
Plum-leaf pomaderris is an uncommon species, it grows south of the Hunter Valley, west of the Nandewar Range and Chandler River gorge in rocky situations, mostly near creeks.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)