Pomaderris oraria F.Muell. ex Reissek
Scrambling to erect shrub 1-2 m high, often branching at ground level, sometimes low-growing. Adult lvs petiolate, 9-50 × 6-20 mm, oblong; upper surface glabrous; lower surface with dense tomentum of sessile and stalked stellate hairs, often brown or ferruginous; margins sinuate to shallowly crenate, not revolute; stipules 1-2 mm long, soon deciduous. Juvenile lvs extremely variable, sometimes < 6 mm long, conspicuously toothed, thinly tomentose on both surfaces. Infl. an axillary or terminal, elongated, leafless panicle. Calyx green, spreading; lobes persistent to capsule maturity. Petals 0. Anthers ovoid. Ovary with apical tuft of short-rayed stellate hairs, wholly immersed in the calyx tube at anthesis, slightly > 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying 4/5 of their inner faces.
N.: N. Cape Peninsula, Whangarei Head (Mt Manaia).
Also indigenous to S.E. Australia and Tasmania.
In low scrub.
FL Nov.
N.Z. plants were treated in Allan (1961) as P. oraria F. Muell. var. novae-zelandiae L. Moore. Moore, in Allan (loc. cit.), also stated that our plants are comparable to some from islands in Bass Strait so the var. may also be in Australia.