Pomaderris mediora N.G.Walsh & Coates APNI*
Description: Procumbent to erect shrub, 1–3 m high, new growth villous with greyish to rusty simple hairs overlying greyish stellate hairs.
Leaves narrow-elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–2 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, margins recurved to occasionally revolute; upper surface glabrous, smooth; lower surface villous with greyish or yellow-rusty simple hairs and dense white-greyish stellate hairs, secondary veins obscure.
Flowers cream, in short axillary cymes forming narrow terminal panicles. Sepals not persistent in fruit. Petals absent.
Capsule and ovary simple-pubescent, hypanthium tomentose.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath and stunted scrub on ridges and headlands, from the Hawkesbury R. to Bulli. In heath and stunted scrub on ridges and headlands.
NSW subdivisions: CC
Text by G.J. Harden Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (1999)
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