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- = Pomaderris polifolia Reissek & F.Muell. in Reissek, Linnaea 29: 269 (1858)
- = Pomaderris phylicifolia var. ericifolia (Hook.) L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 423 (1961)
Low, bushy shrub to 1.5 m high, often with many branches near ground level. Adult lvs subsessile, 2–8–(15) × 1–2–(5) mm, narrow-elliptic to narrow-oblong; upper surface with soft, erect, simple hairs; lower surface with dense tomentum of long-rayed stellate hairs and with some simple hairs on midrib and margins; margins entire, usually strongly revolute to midrib; stipules 2–4 mm long, persistent. Juvenile lvs larger and not or less revolute. Infl. a panicle of small, few-flowered terminal and axillary cymes. Calyx cream, spreading to reflexed. Petals 0, but occasionally calyx with petaloid outgrowth. Anthers ovoid. Ovary with simple and stellate hairs, c. 1/2 immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. ⅓ immersed at fruiting; apex with tuft of simple white hairs. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying from ⅞ to nearly the whole of their inner faces.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Category | Number |
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Indigenous (Non-endemic) | 1 |
Total | 1 |
Flowering: Sep.–Nov.