''Pomaderris notata'', commonly known as McPherson Range 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 eastern Australia. It is a shrub with woolly-hairy stems, elliptic leaves, and cream-coloured flowers.

Description

''Pomaderris notata'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has woolly-hairy young stems. The leaves are elliptic, long and wide, the upper surface of the leaves glabrous and the lower surface covered with short, white to greyish, woolly hairs. The flowers are cream-coloured and arranged in

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s on the ends of branches with

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s long at the base.

Taxonomy

''Pomaderris notata'' was first formally described in 1945 by Stanley Thatcher Blake in '' The Queensland Naturalist'', from specimens he collected in the McPherson Range in 1945. 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 ...

(''nitidula'') means "marked".

Distribution and habitat

McPherson Range pomaderris grows in heath, scrub or rainforest in rocky places at higher altitudes, mainly in south-eastern Queensland but also in a few isolated populations in northern New South Wales.

Conservation status

This pomaderris is listed as "vulnerable" under the New South Wales Government '' Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17271158 Flora of New South Wales notata Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1945 Taxa named by Stanley Thatcher Blake