Pomaderris brunnea

Shrub, 2–4 m high; branchlets villous with mid-dense to dense simple, greyish or pale hairs. Leaves elliptic or obovate, 15–40 mm long, 8–15 mm wide, obtuse, margins recurved, upper surface glabrous, with impressed secondary veins, lower surface villous with mid-dense, greyish or rusty simple hairs largely obscuring greyish stellate hairs; stipules 4–5 mm long, deciduous. Flowers in dense bracteate clusters, forming pyramidal panicles 3–5 cm long overall. Flowers cream, externally grey- or brownish-villous; pedicels 0.5–1 mm long; hypanthium 0.6–0.8 mm long; sepals 1.5–1.7 mm long, deciduous; petals absent; disc absent; ovary inferior, summit villous, style branched in middle third. Fruit not seen. Flowers Oct.