Pomaderris cotoneaster

Shrub 1–3 m high; branchlets densely stellate-pubescent (rarely with a few simple hairs). Leaves broad-ovate to broad-obovate, 20–50 mm long, 15–30 mm wide, obtuse to emarginate, margin plane, upper surface sparsely stellate- and/or simple-pubescent with impressed secondary veins above, lower surface densely whitish-stellate-pubescent, sometimes with sparse, rusty, stellate (and sometimes simple) hairs, mostly on veins; stipules 4–5 mm long, deciduous; panicles c. pyramidal, 3–10 cm long; bracts weakly persistent or deciduous. Flowers cream, externally whitish with stellate and sparse simple hairs; pedicels 1.5–2.5 mm long; hypanthium 0.5–1 mm long; sepals 1.6–2 mm long, deciduous; petals absent; disc absent; ovary virtually inferior, summit villous, style branched in lower half. Operculum c. half to subequal to mericarp. Flowers Oct.–Nov.