Pomaderris halmaturina
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| Kangaroo Island pomaderris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Pomaderris |
| Species: | P. halmaturina |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomaderris halmaturina | |
Pomaderris halmaturina, commonly known as Kangaroo Island pomaderris,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with toothed or wavy edges, and sparse panicles of hairy, yellowish-green flowers.
Pomaderris halmaturina is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 2–3 m (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in). The leaves are narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, 25–55 mm (0.98–2.17 in) long and 12–25 mm (0.47–0.98 in) wide on a petiole 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long with egg-shaped stipules up to about 7 mm (0.28 in) long at the base, but that fall off as the leaf develops. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is densely covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets in panicles or racemes about as long as the leaf at its base, each on a pedicel 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long. The sepals are 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long and yellowish-green with woolly, grey, star-shaped hairs on the back, and there are no petals. Flowering occurs in October and November.[2][3][4]