Pomaderris paniculosa subsp. paralia

Compact shrub 1–2 m high, branchlets greyish or rusty stellate-pubescent. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 15–50 mm long, 10–25 mm wide, obtuse, emarginate or truncate, margins entire (rarely minutely serrate); upper surface glabrous; lower surface densely stellate-pubescent, entirely greyish, or with scattered larger rusty hairs, secondary veins apparent; stipules 2–4 mm long. Inflorescence paniculate, usually narrowly pyramidal, terminal and axillary, 1.5–5 cm long; bracts deciduous; pedicels 0.5–4.5 mm long. Flowers cream or greenish, sometimes tinged crimson, externally greyish or rusty, densely stellate-pubescent; hypanthium 1.5–2 mm long; sepals 2–2.5 mm long, persistent; petals absent; disc absent; ovary inferior, summit stellate-pubescent, style branched from near base. Operculum membranous, c. two-thirds mericarp length. Flowers Oct.–Nov.