Pomaderris pilifera subsp. pilifera
Shrub to c. 3 m high; branchlets with dense grey stellate hairs and sparse, simple hairs. Leaves ovate to obovate, 20–35 mm long, (10–)20–30 mm wide, obtuse, margin plane or undulate, glabrous above except for minute stellate pubescence in grooves above midvein and lateral veins, lower surface pale stellate-pubescent, with a few long rusty simple hairs on midvein (sometimes on larger secondary veins); stipules 4–6 mm long, deciduous. Panicles pyramidal, 1.5–10 cm long; bracts deciduous. Flowers lemon-yellow, externally greyish with dense stellate and sparse to mid-dense simple hairs; pedicels 2–4 cm long; hypanthium c. 1 mm long; sepals 1.5–3 mm long, deciduous; petals spathulate to cordate-reniform 1.5–2(–2.5) mm long; disc absent; ovary virtually inferior, summit with simple hairs, style branched above midway. Operculum membranous, c. half mericarp length. Flowers Sep.–Oct.
GipP, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF. Scattered from Warburton area eastwards, south of the Dividing Range with an isolated occurrence between Mitta Mitta and Tallangatta in the north-east of the State. Usually in dryish open-forest or woodland, usually on shallow soils, occasionally fringing watercourses.
The north-east Victorian occurrence is notable for the very short, sparse simple hairs on sepals, petioles and midvein of the leaf undersurface. See notes under P. elliptica var. elliptica. Pomaderris pilifera subsp. talpicutica A.M.Gray & Wapstra is confined to eastern Tasmania.
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