Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Rhamnaceae
Genus
Pomaderris Labill.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pomaderris apetala Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. 1, 62, t. 87 (1805)
Synonymy:
  • = Pomaderris mollis Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 25: 327 (1892 [1893])
Vernacular Name(s):
New Zealand hazel; Nonokia; Nonorangi; Tainui
 Description

Erect shrub to 4 m high, stellate-tomentose. Petiole of adult lvs to c. 1 cm long. Lamina 50–70 × 20–30 mm (juvenile lvs often larger), narrow- to broad-elliptic, rugose; upper surface stellate-hairy; lower surface with stellate tomentum, some of the hairs stalked; interveinal areas whitish; veins and midrib brown; margins crenulate to denticulate, not or only slightly revolute; apex obtuse to acute; stipules 4–10 mm long, subulate, soon deciduous. Infl. an open, much-branched, pyramidal panicle to c. 20 cm long with fls mainly terminal. Calyx glabrous inside, pale green; lobes c. 2 mm long, spreading to reflexed. Petals 0. Anthers oblong. Ovary with tuft of white, long-rayed, stellate hairs at apex, wholly immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. c. 2 mm diam., globular, blackish; cocci opening by opercula occupying > 3/4 of their inner faces.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Pomaderris apetala Labill.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Feb.

 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1893: Phænogams: A description of some newly-discovered Indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 324–338.
Labillardière, J.J.H. de 1804: Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. Vol. 1(1). Huzard, Paris.
Walsh, N. G.; Coates, F. 1997: New taxa, new combinations and an infrageneric classification in Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae). Muelleria 10: 27–56.