Pomaderris apetala subsp. apetala

Shrub or tree 2–15 m high; branchlets greyish (rarely rusty) stellate-pubescent. Leaves narrow-ovate or ovate, mostly 40–110 mm long, 20–30 mm wide, acute (rarely obtuse), finally glabrous above, or occasionally sparsely stellate-pubescent, smooth or wrinkled, secondary (and usually tertiary) veins apparent, lower surface greyish with dense sessile stellate hairs; margins minutely serrate; stipules 4–8 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescence paniculate, c. pyramidal, 5–25 cm long, 3–13 cm wide; bracts deciduous. Flowers cream or greenish, externally densely stellate-pubescent; pedicels 1–5 mm long; hypanthium c. 1 mm long; sepals 1.5–2 mm long, persistent; petals absent; ovary virtually inferior, the summit stellate-pubescent, style branched in middle third. Operculum membranous, occupying most of inner face, or indistinct and mericarp dehiscing via a ventral or marginal slit. Flowers Oct.–Nov.