Persoonia biglandulosa explained

Persoonia biglandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading or low-lying shrub with smooth bark, linear leaves and bright yellow flowers in groups of between eight and twenty-five on the ends of branches.

Description

Persoonia biglandulosa is an erect, spreading or low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth, mottled grey bark. The leaves are cylindrical but with a groove along the lower surface, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of between eight and twenty-five on or near the ends of branchlets that continue to grow after flowering, each flower on a hairy pedicel long. The tepals are bright yellow, long and moderately hairy, the anthers white. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a smooth oval drupe, long and wide containing a single seed.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Persoonia biglandulosa was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected north of the Murchison River in 1980.[3]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in low heath on sandplains within of the Murchison River in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Persoonia biglandulosa is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Weston . Peter H. . Persoonia biglandulosa . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment . 4 October 2020.
  2. Weston . Peter H. . The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae). . Telopea . 1994 . 6 . 1 . 145–147 . 4 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Persoonia biglandulosa. APNI. 4 October 2020.