Common name: scant pomaderris
Pomaderris queenslandica C.T.White APNI* 
Description: Shrub 2–3 m high, stems whitish, shortly stellate-tomentose with some scattered longer simple hairs.
Leaves ovate to narrow-elliptic, 2.5–7 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse; margins not recurved; upper surface glabrous; lower surface tomentose with whitish curly hairs and with longer simple hairs scattered over surface as well as veins.
Flowers cream, in terminal panicles subtended by ovate bracts 5–6 mm long, ± persistent to when flowers open. Petals usually absent. Hypanthium and sepals silky-pubescent with long white hairs.
Capsule, hypanthium and sepals silky-pubescent with long white to silvery hairs over a shot stellate tomentum.
Distribution and occurrence: Rare in N.S.W. Known from from Dubbo to Muswellbrook, north in to QLD.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS, CWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Plants from the Goonoo to Ulan area sometimes have a denser indumentum of simple hairs on the lower leaf surface than is typical. These may represent a cline towards P. ferruginea.
Text by G.J. Harden (updates P.G. Kodela, Jan 2010; A.E. Orme, Oct 2023)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (1999)
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