Pomaderris viridis
N.G.WalshShrub or small tree to 5 m high; younger branchlets densely covered with pale or slightly rusty stellate hairs. Leaves ovate to elliptic, (20–)25–45(–55) mm long, (15–)18–25(–30) mm wide, obtuse, margins entire or slightly and irregularly serrate or crenate, flat or weakly recurved, upper surface evenly but lightly covered with stellate hairs with the epidermis remaining visible beneath the hairs, lower surface moderately densely covered with pale stellate hairs but the epidermis quite apparent beneath; stipules very narrowly triangular or linear, 3–5 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescences of slender, terminal and upper-axillary panicles mostly 5–8 cm long; bracts deciduous. Flowers cream to pale yellowish-green; externally densely covered with fine grey stellate hairs; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long; hypanthium 0.3–0.5 mm long; sepals 1.2–1.5 mm long, deciduous; petals absent; disc absent; ovary ±half-inferior, summit covered with fine stellate hairs and sometimes a few longer simple hairs; style 3-branched from midway or nearer base. Fruit 2.7–3 mm long, obovoid to ellipsoid; seed released by medial split of ventral face of fruitlet, 1.5–1.7 mm long. Flowers Nov. (NSW)
EGU. Also NSW. Occurs in moist forest and along watercourses (NSW).
Extremely rare in Victoria, currently known from a single plant in forest north of Bellbird Creek in East Gippsland, c. 100 km from its nearest known occurrence in south-eastern New South Wales. First collected in 2018.
Description above based largely on specimens of NSW origin.
