Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Rhamnaceae
Genus
Pomaderris Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pomaderris edgerleyi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 43 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pomaderris prunifolia var. edgerleyi (Hook.f.) L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 421-422 (1961)
 Description

Low-growing or straggling shrub rarely to 1 m. tall. Lvs inclined to lie in one plane, 15–25–(30) × 7–10–(15) mm., broad-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, minutely apiculate, slightly toothed at veins, margins not recurved, petiole 3–5 mm. long; upper surface scabrid with stiff simple unicellular hairs, veins depressed; lower surface with stellate hairs, sessile ones forming a close white cover, shortly stalked ones ferruginous and ∞, especially on the prominent veins. Infl. of compact short-stalked ± globular clusters, axillary or a few bunched terminally; outer bracts stramineous, broad-ovate with close cover of sessile stellate hairs; buds elongated, pale; pedicels 1–2 mm. long. Fls pale, c. 4 mm. diam.; calyx-tube > 1 mm. long, villous with long hairs; sepals c. 1·5 mm. long; petals 0; style divided to c. 1/3 length; capsule 3 mm. long, narrow, c. 2/3 immersed in calyx-tube, pale except for dark hairs on upper surface, losing sepals early; operculum c. 1/2 coccus-length; seeds long, 1·9 × 1 mm., dark brown.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.as Pomaderris prunifolia var. edgerleyi (Hook.f.) L.B.Moore]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.; Fruiting: Nov.–Jan.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
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