Pale Pomaderris (Pomaderris pallida)

Description

• The Pale Pomaderris is a small, rounded shrub that grows up to 2 m high.
• Its leaves are small, narrow or oval, up to 18 mm long and 7 mm wide, with both sides covered in soft, tiny star-shaped hairs.
• Its leaves are pale green on top and greyish-white on the bottom.
• Its flowers are small, pale yellow, and have 5 petal-like sepals. The flowers grow in clusters on short stalks on the axils of leaves at the ends of the outer branch.
• It blooms from mid-September to December.

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Where are they

The Pale Pomaderris is found in the ACT, southern NSW and eastern Victoria. In the ACT, most of the plants are found along:

• Murrumbidgee River
• Cotter River
• Paddys River.

It’s conserved in:

• Namadgi National Park
• Bullen Range Nature Reserve
• Melrose Nature Reserve
• Tuggeranong Hill Nature Reserve
• Roy Roy Nature Reserve
• McQuoids Hill Nature Reserve.
• Stony Creek Nature Reserve (NSW)

The Pale Pomaderris grows in areas that have:

• dry open forests
• shrubland with plants such as Juniper (Grevillea juniperina) and Blackthorn (Bursaria spinosa).
• shallow, sandy soils over granite.

Conservation threats

Threats to the Pale Pomaderris include:

• clearing of its habitat
• rural resident development
• weed competition
• animals such as deer, goats, livestock and kangaroos
• fire occurring too often
• increased habitat fragmentation
• loss of small, remaining populations
• sediment runoff from fire trails
• flood damage to smaller riverbank populations
• low genetic diversity in small, isolated populations
• lack of knowledge about seed dormancy and growth.

Conservation status

• National – Vulnerable (Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999).
• Australian Capital Territory – Vulnerable (Nature Conservation Act 2014).

Conservation actions

Conservation aims to maintain known populations of the Pale Pomaderris, including to:

• reduce the impact of development on the species
• remove woody weeds using safe methods that protect the habitat and species
• control livestock and feral animals to prevent damage
• plan hazard reduction burns carefully to avoid harming the species and its habitat
• after any fires, protect populations from more fires until the plants are mature enough to reproduce.

Strategies and plans