''Pomaderris elliptica'', commonly known as yellow dogwood or smooth pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with densely hairy branchlets, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves, and pale yellow flowerss.

Description

''Pomaderris elliptica'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets densely covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are 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 is glabrous and the lower surface densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowers are pale yellow and borne in clusters up to in diameter, each flower on a

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long. The

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is long, the

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s long but fall off as the flower opens, and the petals are long. Flowering occurs from September to December.

Taxonomy

''Pomaderris elliptica'' was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his '' Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen''. The

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(''elliptica'') means "elliptic". The names of two varieties are accepted by the

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: *''Pomaderris elliptica'' var. ''diemenica'' N.G.Walsh & Coates; *''Pomaderris elliptica'' Labill. var. ''elliptica''.

Distribution and habitat

This pomaderris grows in open forest and is widespread from south of

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in New South Wales through south-eastern Victoria to Tasmania. Variety ''diemenica'' is endemic to Tasmania.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7227194 elliptica Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of Tasmania Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière