Pomaderris reperta
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| image = Pomaderris reperta flowers.jpg
| image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
| genus = Pomaderris
| species = reperta
| status_system = EPBC
| status = CR
| authority = N.G.Walsh & Coates{{cite web |title=Pomaderris reperta |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/166880 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=16 April 2022}}
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Pomaderris reperta, commonly known as Denman pomaderris,{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Pomaderris reperta |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~reperta |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=16 April 2022}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a shrub with densely rusty-hairy new growth, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and dense panicles of cream-coloured flowers.
Description
Pomaderris reperta is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1–3|m}}, its new growth densely covered with shaggy, rust-coloured, simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are elliptic to broadly elliptic or egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, {{cvt|10–35|mm}} long and {{cvt|8–20|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|3–10|mm}} long with egg-shaped stipules {{cvt|3–5|mm}} long at the base, but that fall off as the leaf develops. The upper surface of the leaves is covered with short, velvety hairs and the lower surface is densely covered with white or greyish, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne in short, dense panicles {{cvt|30–40|mm}} long with ten to thirty cream-coloured flowers densely covered with silvery or pale rusty simple hairs and greyish star-shaped hairs on the back. Each flower is borne on a pedicel {{cvt|1.5–3|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|2.3–2.8|mm}} long, and there are usually no petals. Flowering occurs in October and the fruit is dark, greyish brown and about {{cvt|3.5|mm}} long.{{cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |last2=Coates |first2=Fiona |title=New taxa, new combinations and an infrageneric classification in Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae) |journal=Muelleria |date=1997 |volume=10 |pages=43–45 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209898#page/47/mode/1up |access-date=8 April 2022}}{{cite web |title=Denman Pomaderris |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10657 |publisher=New South Wales Government Office of Environment and Heritage |access-date=16 April 2022}}
Taxonomy
Pomaderris reperta was first formally described in 1997 by Neville Grant Walsh and Fiona Coates in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected by [https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/jobson-peter-craig.html Peter Craig Jobson] near Denman in 1995.{{cite web |title=Pomaderris reperta |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/561966 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=16 April 2022}} The specific epithet (reperta) means "to rediscover", referring its not having been seen between 1961 and 1995.
Distribution and habitat
Denman pomaderris grows in woodland on soil derived from sandstone near Denman in the upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales.{{cite web |title=Approved Conservation Advice for Pomaderris reperta (Denman pomaderris) |url=https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/77103-conservation-advice.pdf |publisher=Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment |access-date=16 April 2022}}
Conservation status
Pomaderris reperta is listed as "critically endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. The main threats to the species include its small population size and limited distribution and drought.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales