Species profile—Pomaderris coomingalensis
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Rhamnaceae → Pomaderris coomingalensis
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Scientific name
- Pomaderris coomingalensis N.G.Walsh & Coates
- WildNet taxon ID
- 18233
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Endangered
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Short Notes
- three sheets plus spirit
- Description
- Pomaderris coomingalensis is a shrub that grows from 3 to 5 m tall. The young stems have a dense, greyish covering of stellate (star-shaped) hairs. The leaves are ovate or elliptic, 20 to 60 mm long by 7 to 18 mm wide; the base is cuneate (wedge shaped), the margins are entire, the apex is obtuse; the upper side of the lamina is glabrous, smooth with the lateral veins not or slightly impressed; the lower side of the lamina is pubescent with dense, greyish stellate hairs. The petiole is 2 to 5 mm long, stipules narrow-triangular or triangular, acute, 2 to 3 mm long. The inflorescence is 1 to 1.8 cm long by 1 to 1.5 cm wide and consists of 20 to 50 flowers. The flowers are cream or yellow; externally densely pubescent, consisting of sparse to moderate greyish or rusty simple hairs and dense, greyish stellate hairs; sepals 1.2 to 1.5 mm long, petals absent. The fruit has not been seen.
Pomaderris coomingalensis appears most closely related to P. clivicola which is also a Queensland endemic. Both species have relatively narrow leaves, very small apetalous flowers and similar indumentum, but P. coomingalensis is immediately distinguished by the leaves being glabrous (rather than minutely but densely stellate-pubescent) on the upper surface, and lacking simple hairs on the internerves of the lower surface (Walsh, 1997). - Map
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- Distribution
- Pomaderris coomingalensis has been collected from the Coominglah State Forest between Monto and Theodore. There are also collections from near Kingaroy, Proston and Dalby where it is described as being locally common. The species occurs within Braemar State Forest, Coominglah State Forest, Devine State Forest and Durikai State Forest (Queensland Herbarium, 2012).
- Distributional limits
- -24.6902777, 150.7774897
-28.3445264, 151.8180556 - Range derivation
- Range derived from extent of the taxon's verified records
- Habitat
- Pomaderris coomingalensis is recorded from Eucalyptus decorticans, and Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata open forest on red soil; and E. crebra / Eucalyptus fibrosa subsp. nubila woodland on stony brown clay loam (Walsh, 1997; Queensland Herbarium, 2012).
- Reproduction
- Pomaderris coomingalensis flowers from October to December (Queensland Herbarium, 2012).
- Threatening processes
- Threatening processes to Pomaderris coomingalensis include inappropriate fire regimes which results in the loss and/or removal of individual; weeds (mainly grassy weeds); and inappropriate grazing regimes (DERM, 2010).
- Status notes
- Pomaderris coomingalensis is listed as Endangered under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.
- Management recommendations
- Recommended management actions for Pomaderris coomingalensis are described in DERM (2010).
- References
- Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) (2010). Burnett Mary Natural Resource Management Region Back on Track Actions for Biodiversity. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane.
Queensland Herbarium (2012). Specimen label information. Queensland Herbarium. Accessed 20/03/2012.
Walsh, N.G. and Coates, F. (1997). New taxa, new combinations and an infrageneric classification in Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae). Muelleria 10: 37. - Profile author
- Ronald Booth (25/06/2012)
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=18233.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
