Pomaderris aspera

Shrub or tree 2–15 m high; branchlets rusty stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate, 40–120 mm long, 20–60 mm wide, acute to obtuse, margins minutely serrate, upper surface glabrous or sparsely stellate-pubescent, lower surface with rusty, stalked, stellate hairs, not entirely obscuring lamina, secondary (and usually tertiary) veins apparent; stipules 3–7 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescence paniculate, (5–)8–25(–35) cm long. Flowers cream, rarely tinged crimson, externally stellate-pubescent; pedicels 1–3.5 mm long; hypanthium 0.5–1 mm long; sepals 1.5–2 mm long, persistent; petals absent; disc absent; ovary inferior to semi-inferior, summit glabrous or pubescent, style branched from near base to midway. Operculum membranous, c. half to nearly as long as mericarp, or indistinct Flowers Oct.–Nov.