Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 9:139 (1875).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Low shrubs 30-75 cm high; leaves obcordate or at least in W.Aust. elliptic and shortly acute or emarginate, entire, the margins flat, the blade 4-8 x 4-7 mm, densely but not apparently stellately grey-tomentose below, shortly but densely velvety above, cuneate to the 1-2 mm long petioles.

Flowers in small terminal or axillary umbel-like clusters; pedicels c. 1 mm long; peduncles, pedicels and the outside of the calyx grey-tomentose like the undersurface of the leaves but especially the calyx with additional longer simple hairs; ovary c. 1 mm long; sepals c. 2 mm long; petals spathulate, slightly shorter than the sepals; style eventually deeply divided, with the branches stigmatic along the inner face; ovary fully inferior.

Fruit not available; seed described by Mueller (1875) as "sericeo-velutinellum".

	Pomaderris forrestiana inflorescence and flower.
Image source: fig 428b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Recorded growing on a cliff and on shallow loam on limestone. S.Aust.: NU.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July, Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available