Pomaderris elliptica var. elliptica

Shrub to 4 m high; branchlets densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate, elliptic or narrow-elliptic, 30–90 mm long, 15–45 mm wide, acute or obtuse, margins not recurved, but often finely undulate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface densely and minutely stellate-pubescent, rarely with a few very short simple hairs; stipules 2–5 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescences hemispherical or pyramidal, to c. 12 cm diam.; bracts deciduous. Flowers pale yellow, externally minutely stellate-pubescent; pedicels 2–5 mm long; hypanthium 0.8–1 mm long; sepals deciduous, 1.5–2 mm long; petals cordate-reniform, 1.5–2 mm long; ovary virtually inferior, summit stellate-pubescent, style branched in upper half. Operculum membranous, c. half mericarp length. Flowers Sep.–Nov.