Slender shrubs, 1–2.5 m high; branchlets greyish, pubescent or villous with simple and stellate hairs. Leaves narrow-ovate to linear; margins recurved or revolute, upper surface hispid, or rarely, glabrous, lower surface greyish-pubescent, or lamina entirely obscured; stipules 1–6 mm long, persistent. Flowers in small axillary clusters, crowded toward branch-tips; bracts deciduous. Flowers cream to yellow; externally greyish, densely pubescent, with simple hairs overlaying stellate hairs; pedicels 0.5–2.5 mm long; hypanthium 0.5–1 mm long; sepals 1.2–2 mm long, deciduous; petals absent; disc absent; ovary half-inferior, summit simple-pubescent. Operculum membranous, subequal to mericarp.
GipP, Gold, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp.
2 subspecies, both in Victoria.
Walsh, N.G. (1999). Pomaderris. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 85–109. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
