''Pomaderris lanigera'', commonly known as woolly pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...

and is

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to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with hairy stems, lance-shaped to egg-shaped or elliptic leaves, and hemispherical clusters of yellow flowers.

Description

''Pomaderris lanigera'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with shaggy, rust-coloured and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped or elliptic, long and wide with stipules long at the base but that fall off as the leaf develops. The upper surface of the leaves has a few erect hairs and the lower surface is covered with shaggy, rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are yellow with shaggy rust-coloured hairs on the back and are arranged in more or less hemispherical

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s in diameter. Each flower is on a

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long with

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s at the base but that fall off as the flower opens. The

floral cup In angiosperms, a hypanthium or floral cup is a structure where basal portions of the calyx, the corolla, and the stamens form a cup-shaped tube. It is sometimes called a floral tube, a term that is also used for corolla tube and calyx tube. It ...

is long, the

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s long but fall off as the flowers open, and the petals are spatula-shaped and long. Flowering occurs from August to October.

Taxonomy

Woolly pomaderris was first formally described in 1809 by Henry Cranke Andrews who gave it the name ''Ceanothus laniger'' in ''The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants''. In 1816, John Sims changed the name to ''Pomaderris lanigera'' in ''

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''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''lanigera'') means "woolly".

Distribution and habitat

''Pomaderris lanigera'' is widespread in forest on the coast and nearby ranges from south-eastern Queensland through New South Wales to near

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

in Victoria.

References

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q7227197 Flora of New South Wales lanigera Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Henry Cranke Andrews