Pomaderris ferruginea

Shrub 1.5–4 m high; branchlets moderately to densely villous with rusty simple hairs. Leaves narrow-ovate to ovate, 30–90 mm long, 15–40 mm wide, acute to obtuse, margins plane to slightly recurved, glabrous above, lower surface villous with mid-dense to dense, curved or wavy, rusty simple hairs over short stellate hairs, secondary veins apparent; stipules 4–6 mm long, deciduous. Panicles pyramidal to hemispherical, 3–10 cm diam., usually dense; bracts deciduous. Flowers cream, externally grey- to golden-villous; pedicels 1.5–4 mm long; hypanthium 1–1.5 mm long; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm long, deciduous; petals narrow-obovate, 1–2 mm long (rarely absent); disc absent; ovary virtually inferior, summit villous, style branched above midway. Operculum membranous, c. half mericarp length Flowers Aug.–Oct.