Pomaderris racemosa
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image_caption = Near Heywood, Victoria
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|species = racemosa
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|authority = Hook.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris racemosa |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/112986 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=14 April 2022}}
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Pomaderris racemosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with densely hairy branchlets, egg-shaped to broadly elliptic leaves, and racemes or panicles of cream-coloured flowers.
Description
Pomaderris racemosa is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|2–8|m}} and has its branchlets densely covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. Its leaves are egg-shaped to broadly elliptic, mostly {{cvt|15–20|mm}} long and {{cvt|8–12|mm}} wide with stipules {{cvt|2–4|mm}} long at the base, but that fall off as the leaf develops. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are cream-coloured and borne at the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils in racemes or panicles {{cvt|20–40|mm}} long. Each flower is on a pedicel {{cvt|1–3.5|mm}} long with egg-shaped bracts {{cvt|5–6|mm}} long at the base, but that fall off as the flowers open. The sepals are {{cvt|1.5–1.8|mm}} long but fall off as the flowers mature and there are no petals. Flowering occurs from October to December.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |title=Pomaderris racemosa |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/60baf536-459d-461b-b074-571467dba028 |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Victoria |access-date=14 April 2022}}
Taxonomy
Pomaderris racemosa was first formally described in 1834 by William Jackson Hooker in The Journal of Botany from specimens collected by Robert William Lawrence in 1831.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris racemosa |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/546397 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=14 April 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Hooker |first1=William J. |title=Contributions Towards a Flora of Van Dieman's Land; from collections sent by R. W. Lawrence, and Ronald Gunn, Esqrs., and by Dr. Scott. |journal=The Journal of Botany |date=1834 |volume=1 |page=256 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/6308#page/278/mode/1up |access-date=14 April 2022}}
Distribution and habitat
This pomaderris grows in sheltered forest or in scrub from south-eastern South Australia to Rosedale in Victoria and in scattered locations along rivers and on the edges of lakes in Tasmania.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Greg |title=Pomaderris racemosa |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/60baf536-459d-461b-b074-571467dba028 |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=14 April 2022}}
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Category:Flora of Victoria (state)
Category:Flora of South Australia