Pomaderris ferruginea Sieber ex Fenzl

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Fenzl, E. in Endlicher, S.F.L., Fenzl, E., Bentham, G. & Schott, H.W. (April 1837), Rhamneae. Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel: 21

Nomenclature

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Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Pomaderris. Flora of Victoria 4: 104, Fig. 17i
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taxonomic synonym: Ceanothus wendlandianus Schult.: 104
taxonomic synonym: Pomaderris wendlandiana (Schult.) G.Don: 104
taxonomic synonym: Pomaderris viridirufa Fenzl: 104
  Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Pomaderris. Flora of Victoria 4: 104, Fig. 17i
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taxonomic synonym: Ceanothus wendlandianus Schult.: 104
taxonomic synonym: Pomaderris wendlandiana (Schult.) G.Don: 104
taxonomic synonym: Pomaderris viridirufa Fenzl: 104

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Description

Shrub 1.5–4 m high; branchlets moderately to densely villous with rusty simple hairs. Leaves narrowly ovate to ovate, 30–90 mm long, 15–40 mm wide, acute to obtuse; margins plane to slightly recurved; glabrous above; villous beneath with mid-dense to dense, curved or wavy, rusty simple hairs over short stellate hairs, secondary veins apparent. Stipules ovate, 4–6 mm long, caducous. Panicles pyramidal to hemispherical, 3–10 cm diam., usually dense. Bracts caducous. Pedicels 1.5–4 mm long. Flowers cream (rarely yellow), externally grey- to golden-villous. Hypanthium 1–1.5 mm long. Sepals 1.5–2.5 (–3) mm long. Petals narrow-obovate, 1–2 mm long (rarely absent). Ovary virtually inferior, summit villous. Style 1.5–3 mm long, branched above midway. Torus of capsule near middle. Operculum c. half pyrene length.

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Diagnostic Features

Close to Pomaderris ligustrina but distinguished by the (normally) petalous flowers, coarser stems (more than 1 mm diam. immediately below inflorescence) that retain their pubescence for more than one year, and usually larger leaves.

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Phenology

Flowers August–October. 

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Biostatus

Native.

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Distribution

Found from near Brisbane, Queensland, mainly on the coastal fall of the Great Dividing Range, through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to just west of Melbourne, Victoria.

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Habitat

Grows in a wide range of woodland and open forest communities, commonly near watercourses and/or rocky outcrops; 40–900 m alt. 

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Representative Herbarium Specimens

Qld: Chapel Hill, 1.6 km SW Mount Coot-tha lookout, P.I. Forster 2501 (BRI). 

N.S.W.: above Roberts Creek, Bulls Ridge, East Kurrajong, T.A. James 3201 (NSW); Rocky Hill, 20.5 km SSW of Eden, M. Parris 9225 (CANB, MEL, NSW).

A.C.T.: Black Mountain, Canberra, 12 Oct. 1983, F. Davies & I.R.H. Telford (NSW) [status?]

Vic.: Brisbane Ranges, 3.25 miles [c. 5 km] from Anakie Junction toward Ballan, E.J. Carroll 630 (BRI, CANB).

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Nomenclature and Typification

Pomaderris ferruginea Sieb. ex Fenzl, Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel: 21 (1837); Pomaderris viridirufa Sieb. ex Fenzl, Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel: 21 (1837), nom. inval., pro syn. Type citation: "Sieber pl. exs. N. Holl. nr. 209 et 214"; syn: N.S.W., Sydney area, 1823, Sieber Fl. Nov. Holl. 209, ?W,  K, MEL, NSW); syn: Sieber Fl. Nov. Holl. 214, ?W, K, MEL, NSW.

Taxonomic Synonym

Pomaderris wendlandiana (Schultes) G.Don, Loudon's Hortus Britannicus edn 1: 84 (1830); Ceanothus wendlandiana Schultes in  Roemer & Schultes, Systema Vegetabilium edn 16, 5: 299 (1819). Type: none designated.

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Taxonomic Notes

Common in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, where it may hybridise with Pomaderris andromedifolia.

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Illustrations

L. Costermans, Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia 220–221 (1981); N.G. Walsh & T.J. Entwisle (eds), Flora of Victoria 4: 103, fig. 17i (1999).

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Source

Published 25 August 2023.

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Pomaderris ferruginea by Fagg, M., 1994-10 (© Fagg, M.)

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Cite this profile as: N.G. Walsh. Pomaderris ferruginea, in (ed.), Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pomaderris%20ferruginea [Date Accessed: 14 March 2025]