Pomaderris sericea

Shrub to c. 2 m high; branchlets sericeous with golden simple hairs. Leaves narrow-elliptic, 6–30 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, obtuse, margin recurved, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sericeous with appressed golden to coppery hairs, entirely obscuring underlying stellate hairs, secondary veins obscure; stipules 2–4 mm long, deciduous. Panicles rather dense, c. pyramidal, 1–3 cm long and wide; bracts deciduous. Flowers yellow, externally villous, with grey to golden simple hairs over pale stellate hairs; pedicels 1–2 mm long; hypanthium 0.8–1 mm long; sepals 1.7–2.1 mm long, deciduous; petals absent; disc absent; ovary virtually inferior, summit simple-pubescent, style branched near base. Operculum membranous, c. half mericarp length. Flowers Oct.