Pomaderris tropica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Walshs Pyramid in north Queesland. It is a shrub with softly-hairy branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.
Pomaderris tropica is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long with narrow triangular stipules long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is covered with velvety hairs and the lower surface densely covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne in clusters at the ends of branchlets, long and wide, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are oblong, about long but there are no petals. Flowering occurs from August to November.[1]
Pomaderris tropica was first formally described in 1951 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens collected by Hugo Flecker on Walshs Pyramid in 1938.[2] [3] The specific epithet (tropica) means "tropical".[4]
This pomaderris grows in narrow crevices between rocks on Walshs Pyramid in north Queensland.
Pomaderris tropica is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]