Persoonia oleoides explained

Persoonia oleoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to twenty-five on a rachis up to long.

Description

Persoonia oleoides is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth bark with young branchlets covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblong to elliptical, egg-shaped or spatula-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, sometimes on a rachis with a dormant bud on the end, sometimes on a rachis that continues to grow into a leafy branch. In the first case, there are up to three flowers on a rachis up to long. In the case of a rachis that grows into a leafy shoot, there are up to twenty-five flowers on a rachis up to long. Each flower is on a pedicel long, the tepals are yellow, hairy and long. Flowering occurs from January to February and the fruit is a green drupe, sometimes with purple stripes.[1] [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Persoonia oleoides was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Peter Weston in the journal Telopea.[4]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in forest between the upper Clarence River, the upper Macleay River and Barrington Tops in eastern New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Weston. Peter. Persoonia oleoides. Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. 28 October 2020.
  2. Web site: Weston . Peter H. . Persoonia oleioides . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 28 October 2020.
  3. Weston . Peter H. . Johnson . Lawrence A.S. . Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales . Telopea . 1 March 1991 . 4 . 2 . 296–297 . 10.7751/telopea19914929. free .
  4. Web site: Persoonia oleoides. APNI. 27 October 2020.