Shrubs to c. 2 m high; branchlets greyish or rusty, stellate-pubescent. Leaves hispid on upper surface with simple or stellate hairs, midrib and secondary veins strongly impressed, lower surface densely white or grey stellate-pubescent, with scattered larger rusty stellate hairs (denser over the veins); stipules 2–7 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescence a panicle of 1–several few-flowered clusters. Flowers greenish, cream or crimson-tinged, externally densely stellate-pubescent; pedicels 0.5–1 mm long; sepals persistent; petals absent; disc absent; ovary inferior, summit stellate pubescent. Operculum membranous, c. two-thirds as long as mericarp.
GleP, GipP, EGL, EGU, WPro, Strz, VAlp.
2 subspecies, both in Victoria.
Source:
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.
