Pomaderris oraria subsp. oraria

Compact, much-branched shrub to c. 1 m high; branchlets greyish or rusty, stellate-pubescent. Leaves broad-elliptic, mostly 10–30 mm long, 8–23 mm wide, often emarginate and shallowly toothed near apex, upper surface hispid, with sparse to mid-dense, simple and/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 1–4 cm long. Flowers greenish, cream or crimson-tinged, externally densely stellate-pubescent; pedicels 0.5–1 mm long. Hypanthium 0.7–1.3 mm long; sepals 1.5–2.2 mm long, persistent; petals absent; disc absent; ovary inferior, summit stellate pubescent; style branched in middle third. Operculum membranous, c. two-thirds as long as mericarp.. Flowers Oct.–Nov.