Family: Rhamnaceae
Pomaderris forrestiana
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 9:139 (1875).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Low shrubs 30-75 cm high; leaves obcordate or at least in W.Aust. elliptic and shortly acute or emarginate, entire, the margins flat, the blade 4-8 x 4-7 mm, densely but not apparently stellately grey-tomentose below, shortly but densely velvety above, cuneate to the 1-2 mm long petioles.
Flowers in small terminal or axillary umbel-like clusters; pedicels c. 1 mm long; peduncles, pedicels and the outside of the calyx grey-tomentose like the undersurface of the leaves but especially the calyx with additional longer simple hairs; ovary c. 1 mm long; sepals c. 2 mm long; petals spathulate, slightly shorter than the sepals; style eventually deeply divided, with the branches stigmatic along the inner face; ovary fully inferior.
Fruit not available; seed described by Mueller (1875) as "sericeo-velutinellum".
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Image source: fig 428b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Recorded growing on a cliff and on shallow loam on limestone.
S.Aust.: NU. W.Aust.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: July, Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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