''Pomaderris subcapitata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with hairy stems, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and dense clusters of cream-coloured or yellow flowers.

Description

''Pomaderris subcapitata'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its stems covered with woolly, whitish, star-shaped hairs and longer simple, rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with

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s long at the base, but that fall off as the leaves age. The upper surface of the leaves is velvet-hairy with impressed veins, the lower surface with hairs like those on the stems. The flowers are cream-coloured to yellow, borne in dense clusters long and wide, each flower on a

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long. The

floral cup In angiosperms, a hypanthium or floral cup is a structure where basal portions of the calyx, the corolla, and the stamens form a cup-shaped tube. It is sometimes called a floral tube, a term that is also used for corolla tube and calyx tube. It of ...

and

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined ...

s are covered with whitish simple and grey star-shaped hairs. The sepals are long but fall off as the flowers open and the petals, when present, are spatula-shaped and long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a hairy

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Taxonomy

''Pomaderris subcapitata'' was first formally described in 1951 by

Norman Arthur Wakefield Norman Arthur Wakefield (28 November 1918 – 23 September 1972) was an Australian teacher, naturalist, paleontologist and botanist, notable as an expert on ferns. He described many new species of plants. Wakefield was born in Romsey, Victoria ...

in ''

The Victorian Naturalist ''The Victorian Naturalist'' is a bimonthly scientific journal covering natural history, especially of Australia. It is published by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and is received as part of the membership subscription of that club. From ...

'' from specimens collected in 1900.

Distribution and habitat

This pomaderris grows in forest woodland and heath, usually in rocky places, in scattered places in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, mainly south of

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, and in eastern Victoria.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17251714 Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of the Australian Capital Territory subcapitata Plants described in 1951 Taxa named by Norman Arthur Wakefield