''Pomaderris pallida'', commonly known as pale 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 endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is a compact, rounded shrub with hairy stems, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong leaves and

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s of cream-coloured flowers.

Description

''Pomaderris pallida'' is a compact, rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of , its stems covered with small woolly, whitish, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, long and wide, both surfaces densely covered with velvety, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne in small, leafy panicles long with five cream-coloured, petal-like sepals but there are no petals. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a hairy capsule.

Taxonomy

''Pomaderris pallida'' was first formally described in 1951 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in ''

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'' from specimens collected by Richard Hind Cambage near the junction of the Murrumbidgee and Cotter Rivers in 1911. 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 ...

(''pallida'') means "pale".

Distribution and habitat

This pomaderris grows in open forest and scrub in woodland but is only known from a few populations in the Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales.

Conservation status

''Pomaderris pallida'' is list as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government '' Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' and the New South Wales Government '' Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17252160 Flora of New South Wales Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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Plants described in 1951 Taxa named by Norman Arthur Wakefield