This determination has been superseded by the 2010 Determination - Critically endangered species listing.
NSW Scientific Committee - final determination
The Scientific Committee has found that:
1. Pomaderris delicata (family Rhamnaceae) is described in Walsh & Coates (1997): shrub 1-2m high. Young stems pubescent with very sparse, loosely appressed greyish-yellow or rusty simple hairs and dense, greyish-yellow stellate hairs. Leaves elliptic, 13-30mm long, 5-15mm wide; base cuneate; margins entire, plane or slightly recurved; apex obtuse to broadly acute; adaxial lamina glabrous, smooth lateral veins not or slightly impressed; abaxial lamina densely pubescent with greyish stellate hairs; midrib with a few appressed, pale or rusty simple or comb-like hairs, sometimes extending onto lateral veins; petiole 3-5mm long; stipules triangular, acute, 1-2mm long, caducous. Inflorescence of 20 to >50 flowers, pyramidal, terminal, 1.5-4cm long, 2-5cm wide; bracts caducous; pedicels 1.5-3mm long. Flowers golden-yellow; externally pubescent with sparse to moderately dense, loosely appressed to spreading greyish simple hairs (sometimes very short) and dense, greyish stellate hairs, both hair types less dense on sepals; hypanthium 0.8-1.2mm in diameter, 0.8-1mm long; sepals 1.7-2mm long, spreading; petals 1.7-2mm long, spathulate; stamens c. 1.5mm long; anthers 0.9-1.1mm long; ovary inferior, pubescent with simple and stellate hairs; style glabrous, 1-1.5mm long, branched in upper to middle third. Fruit ellipsoid to obovoid, 2.5-3.5mm long, brown; apex obtuse; torus c. equatorial; operculum c. two-thirds pyrene length; seed c. 2mm long. A description is also available by Harden, G.J. (2000) in Harden, G.J. & Murray L.J. (eds). Flora of NSW Vol 1. Supplement p. 52, UNSW Press, Kensington.
2. Pomaderris delicata is known from two populations south-west of Goulburn on the Southern Tablelands. Each population is bisected by a road. The total number of plants known is about 200.
3. Populations have been recorded in dry sclerophyll forest dominated by Eucalyptus sieberi with a dense shrubby understorey on shallow, rocky soil derived from Silurian and Ordovician sediments.
4. The populations do not occur within a conservation area.
5. The species is threatened by road widening, clearing, grazing, burning and at risk due to its small population size and stochastic events.
In view of the above the Scientific Committee, is of the opinion that Pomaderris delicata N.G. Walsh & F. Coates is likely to become extinct in nature in New South Wales unless the circumstances and factors threatening its survival or evolutionary development cease to operate.
Proposed Gazettal date: 06/12/02
Exhibition period: 06/12/02 - 24/01/03
References:
Harden, G.J. & Murray L.J. (eds) (2000) Flora of New South Wales Vol 1 Supplement, University of NSW Press, Kensington.
Walsh, N.G. & Coates, F. (1997) New taxa, new combinations and infrageneric classification in Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae). Muelleria 10, 27-56