''Pomaderris ferruginea'', commonly known as rusty pomaderris,
is a species of flowering plant in the family
Rhamnaceae and is
endemic
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to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with rusty-hairy stems, egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of cream-coloured, whitish or yellow flowers.
Description
''Pomaderris ferruginea'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with shaggy, rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide, the upper surface
glabrous
Glabrousness (from the Latin '' glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...
and the lower surface covered with curved, rust-coloured hairs. The flowers are cream-coloured and borne in pyramid-shaped to hemispherical
panicles wide on the ends of branches, each flower on a
pedicel
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Human anatomy
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long with
bracts at the base but that fall off as the flower opens. The
floral cup is long, the
sepal
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s long but fall off as the flowers open, and the petals are long. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy
''Pomaderris ferruginea'' was first formally described in 1837 by
Eduard Fenzl
Eduard Fenzl (1808, in Krummnußbaum – 1879, in Vienna) was an Austrian botanist.
Life and contributions
An obituary notes " was Professor of Botany and Director of the Imperial Botanical Cabinet, a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, ...
in ''
'' from an unpublished description by
Franz Sieber
Franz Wilhelm Sieber (30 March 1789 – 17 December 1844), was a botanist and collector who travelled to Europe, the Middle East, Southern Africa and Australia.
Early life
Franz Sieber was born in Prague, Bohemia on 30 March 1789.
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.
The
specific epithet (''ferruginea'') means "rust-coloured".
Distribution and habitat
Rusty pomaderris grows in open forest, often along streams from south-east Queensland, along the coast and tablelands of
New South Wales
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and as far east as
Bairnsdale
Bairnsdale () ( Ganai: ''Wy-yung'') is a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia in a region traditionally owned by the Tatungalung clan of the Gunaikurnai people.
The estimated population of Bairnsdale urban area was 15,411 at Ju ...
in
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
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.
References
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Flora of New South Wales
ferruginea
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Flora of Queensland
Taxa named by Eduard Fenzl