Pomaderris flabellaris

Fan pomaderris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Pomaderris
Species:
P. flabellaris
Binomial name
Pomaderris flabellaris
Synonyms[1]

Trymalium flabellare F.Muell. ex Reissek

Pomaderris flabellaris, commonly known as fan pomaderris,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a low shrub with fan-shaped leaves, and small clusters of woolly-hairy flowers.

Description

Pomaderris flabellaris is a shrub that typically grows to a height of about 1 m (3 ft 3 in). The leaves are fan-shaped, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long and 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) wide, usually with wavy or toothed edges, on a petiole 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. Both surfaces are covered with star-shaped hairs, densely so on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in small groups up to 20 mm (0.79 in) long in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a hairy pedicel about 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The sepals are densely covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs and are 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long but there are no petals. Flowering occurs from August to October.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Fan pomaderris was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek who gave it the name Trymalium flabellare in the journal Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkundein from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller.[4][5] In 1926, John McConnell Black changed the name to Pomaderris flabellaris.[6]

Distribution and habitat

Pomaderris flabellaris grows in shallow soil and sand dunes on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Pomaderris flabellaris". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Pomaderris flabellaris". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Walsh, Neville G. (1990). "The Pomaderris oraria F.Muell. complex in Australia". Muelleria. 7 (2): 279–280. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Trymalium flabellare". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  5. ^ Reissek, Siegfried (1858). "Plantae Muellerianae Australasicae – Celastrineae, Rhamneae". Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde. 29 (3): 281. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Pomaderris flabellaris". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 February 2022.