Description
Plants in the genus ''Pomaderris'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees, the young stems, lower surfaces of the leaves and flower parts are covered with woolly, star-shaped and simple hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches and are simple, with brown stipules at the base of the Petiole (botany), petiole but that are usually shed as the leaf matures. The flowers are arranged in small Inflorescence#Determinate or cymose, cymes, the groups arranged in racemes or panicles, and are usually yellow. The flowers have five sepals but the petals are usually absent or fall off as the flower opens, and there are five stamens in each flower. The fruit is a Capsule (botany), capsule that eventually splits into three valves.Taxonomy
The genus ''Pomaderris'' was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his ''Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen''. The genus name means "a covering of leather or skin" referring to the valves of the fruit.Distribution
Species of ''Pomaderris'' occur in all Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory, but not the Northern Territory and in both the North Island, North and South Islands of New Zealand. Sixty-five of the species are native to Australia and the other five are from New Zealand. There is some overlap. A distinctive feature of the leaves, branches, and twigs of this genus, is that they are hairy.Ecology
''Pomaderris'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Aenetus ligniveren''.Use in horticulture
A few of species in this genus are known to horticulture; the most commonly cultivated species is ''Pomaderris aspera, P. aspera'', the hazel pomaderris.Species list
The following is a list of ''Pomaderris'' species accepted by Plants of the World Online as at December 2021, other than ''Pomaderris ferruginea, P. ferruginea'' which is accepted by the Australian Plant Census: * ''Pomaderris adnata'' Neville Grant Walsh, N.G.Walsh & Fiona Coates, Coates (New South Wales, N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris amoena'' William Colenso, Colenso (New Zealand, N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris andromedifolia'' A.Cunn. (Queensland, Qld., N.S.W., Victoria (Australia), Vic.) * ''Pomaderris angustifolia'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Australian Capital Territory, A.C.T., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris apetala'' Labill. (Tasmania, Tas., Vic., N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris argyrophylla'' N.A.Wakef. – silver pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld.) * ''Pomaderris aspera'' Franz Sieber, Sieber ex DC. – hazel pomaderris (Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas.) * ''Pomaderris aurea'' N.A.Wakef. (Vic.) * ''Pomaderris betulina'' A.Cunn. ex Hook. – birch pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris bodalla'' N.G.Walsh & Coates – Bodalla pomaderris (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris brevifolia'' N.G.Walsh (W.A.) * ''Pomaderris briagolensis'' Andre Messina, Messina (Vic.) * ''Pomaderris brogoensis'' N.G.Walsh (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris brunnea'' N.A.Wakef. – rufous pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris buchanensis'' N.G.Walsh (Vic.) * ''Pomaderris canescens'' (Benth.) N.A.Wakef. (Qld.) * ''Pomaderris cinerea'' Benth. (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris clivicola'' (Benth.) N.A.Wakef. (Qld.) * ''Pomaderris cocoparrana'' N.G.Walsh – Cocoparra pomaderris (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris coomingalensis'' N.G.Walsh & Coates (Qld.) * ''Pomaderris costata'' N.A.Wakef. (Vic., N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris cotoneaster'' N.A.Wakef. – cotoneaster pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris crassifolia'' N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W., Qld.) * ''Pomaderris delicata'' N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris discolor'' (Vent.) Poir. (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris edgerleyi'' Hook.f. (N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris elachophylla'' F.Muell. – lacy pomaderris, small leaf pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic., Tas.) * ''Pomaderris elliptica'' Labill. (N.S.W., Vic., Tas.) * ''Pomaderris eriocephala'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris ferruginea'' Sieber ex Fenzl – rusty pomaderris (Qld, NSW, Vic.) * ''Pomaderris flabellaris'' (F.Muell. ex Reissek) J.M.Black – fan pomaderris (S.A.) * ''Pomaderris forrestiana'' F.Muell. (W.A., S.A.) * ''Pomaderris gilmourii'' N.G.Walsh (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris grandis'' F.Muell. – large pomaderris (W.A.) * ''Pomaderris graniticola'' (N.G.Walsh & Coates) Keith Leonard McDougall, K.L.Mcdougall & Jacqueline C. Millott, Millott (Qld., N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris halmaturina'' J.M.Black (S.A., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris hamiltonii'' Lucy Beatrice Moore, L.B.Moore – pale-flowered kūmarahou (NZ) * ''Pomaderris helianthemifolia'' (Reissek) N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris intermedia'' Franz Sieber, Sieber ex DC. – lemon dogwood (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.) * ''Pomaderris kumeraho'' A.Cunn. – kūmarahou, gum-digger's soap (N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris lanigera'' (Henry Cranke Andrews, Andrews) John Sims (taxonomist), Sims – woolly pomaderris (Qld., N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris ledifolia'' A.Cunn. – Sydney pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris ligustrina'' Sieber ex DC. (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris mediora'' N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris myrtilloides'' Fenzl (W.A.) * ''Pomaderris nitidula'' (Benth.) N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Qld.) * ''Pomaderris notata'' S.T.Blake – McPherson Range pomaderris (N.S.W., Qld.) * ''Pomaderris obcordata'' Fenzl – wedge-leaved pomaderris (S.A., presumed extinct in Vic.) * ''Pomaderris oblongifolia'' N.G.Walsh (Vic.) * ''Pomaderris oraria'' F.Muell. ex Reissek – Bassian dogwood (Tas, Vic.) * ''Pomaderris pallida'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T.) * ''Pomaderris paniculosa'' F.Muell. ex Reissek – scurfy pomaderris (W.A., S.A., Vic., Tas., N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris parrisiae'' N.G.Walsh (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris pauciflora'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris phylicifolia'' Lodd. ex Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Link – narrow-leaf pomaderris (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas., N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris pilifera'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Vic., Tas.) * ''Pomaderris precaria'' N.G.Walsh & Coates (N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris prunifolia'' Fenzl – plum leaf pomaderris (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris queenslandica'' C.T.White – scant pomaderris (Qld., N.S.W.) * ''Pomaderris racemosa'' Hook. (S.A., Tas., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris reperta'' N.G.Walsh & Coates – Denman pomaderris (NSW) * ''Pomaderris rotundifolia'' (F.Muell.) Barbara Lynette Rye, Rye (W.A.) * ''Pomaderris rugosa'' Thomas Cheeseman, Cheeseman (N.Z.) * ''Pomaderris sericea'' N.A.Wakef. – bent pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris subcapitata'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris subplicata'' N.G.Walsh (Vic.) * ''Pomaderris tropica'' N.A.Wakef. (Qld.) * ''Pomaderris vacciniifolia'' Reissek – round leaf pomaderris (Vic.) * ''Pomaderris vellea'' N.A.Wakef. – woolly pomaderris(N.S.W., Qld.) * ''Pomaderris velutina'' J.H.Willis – velvet pomaderris, velvety pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris virgata'' N.G.Walsh – upright pomaderris (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris viridis'' N.G.Walsh (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''Pomaderris walshii'' Millott & K.L.McDougall – Carrington Falls pomaderris (N.S.W.)References
* Australian Gardening Encyclopedia, 2003, Random House {{Taxonbar, from=Q149826 Pomaderris, Rhamnaceae genera Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière