Pomaderris halmaturina subsp. continentis

Shrubs 1.5–5 m high; branchlets greyish and/or rusty stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate, 15–50(–100) mm long, 7–17(–30) mm wide, obtuse or acute, margins shallowly sinuate, rarely bluntly toothed, upper surface glabrous or with scattered simple or stellate hairs, secondary veins strongly impressed, lower surface densely greyish or rusty stellate-pubescent; stipules 2–3.5 mm long, deciduous. Panicles rather sparse, narrow, sometimes racemose, subequal to subtending leaf; bracts deciduous. Flowers yellow-green, or tinged crimson, externally densely grey or rusty stellate-pubescent; pedicels 0.5–5 mm long; hypanthium 1–1.5 mm long; sepals 1.5–2 mm long, persistent; petals absent; disc absent; ovary inferior, summit stellate-pubescent, style branched near middle. Operculum membranous, filling most of inner face of mericarp. Flowers Oct.–Nov.