Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Rhamnaceae
Genus
Pomaderris Labill.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pomaderris phylicifolia Lodd. ex Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1, 232 (1821)
Synonymy:
  • = Pomaderris polifolia Reissek & F.Muell. in Reissek, Linnaea 29: 269 (1858)
  • = Pomaderris phylicifolia var. ericifolia (Hook.) L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 423 (1961)
Vernacular Name(s):
Taihinu; Tauhinu; Touhinu; Whatitiri
 Description

Low, bushy shrub to 1.5 m high, often with many branches near ground level. Adult lvs subsessile, 2–8–(15) × 1–2–(5) mm, narrow-elliptic to narrow-oblong; upper surface with soft, erect, simple hairs; lower surface with dense tomentum of long-rayed stellate hairs and with some simple hairs on midrib and margins; margins entire, usually strongly revolute to midrib; stipules 2–4 mm long, persistent. Juvenile lvs larger and not or less revolute. Infl. a panicle of small, few-flowered terminal and axillary cymes. Calyx cream, spreading to reflexed. Petals 0, but occasionally calyx with petaloid outgrowth. Anthers ovoid. Ovary with simple and stellate hairs, c. 1/2 immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. ⅓ immersed at fruiting; apex with tuft of simple white hairs. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying from ⅞ to nearly the whole 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 phylicifolia Lodd. ex Link
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Nov.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
Link, H.F. 1821: Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis Altera. Vol. 1.
Reissek, S. 1858: Plantae Muellerianae Australasicae - Celastrineae, Rhamneae. Linnaea 29(3)
Walsh, N. G.; Coates, F. 1997: New taxa, new combinations and an infrageneric classification in Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae). Muelleria 10: 27–56.