Pomaderris is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae. The genus is mostly native to Australia, but is also present in New Zealand. Plants in the genus Pomaderris are usually shrubs, sometimes small trees with simple leaves arranged alternately along the branches and bisexual, woolly-hairy flowers arranged in racemes or panicles. The flowers are usually yellow and often lack petals.
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 but that are usually shed as the leaf matures. The flowers are arranged in small 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 that eventually splits into three valves.[2][3][4][5]
Species of Pomaderris occur in all Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory, but not the Northern Territory and in both the 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.
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