Persoonia oxycoccoides explained

Persoonia oxycoccoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a spreading to prostrate shrub with smooth bark, hairy young branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers arranged in groups of up to thirteen along a rachis that continues to grow after flowering.

Description

Persoonia oxycoccoides is a spreading to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of with smooth bark and sparsely to moderately hairy young branchlets. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to thirteen on a rachis up to long that continues to grow after flowering, each flower on a pedicel long with a leaf at its base. The tepals are yellow, long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from December to April.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Persoonia oxycoccoides was first formally described in 1827 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in the 17th edition of Systema Vegetabilium from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber.[3] [4]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in montane heath and in forest between Mittagong, Jamberoo and Tallong in south-eastern New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PlantNET - FloraOnline. nsw.gov.au.
  2. Web site: Weston . Peter H. . Persoonia oxycoccoides . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 28 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Persoonia oxycoccoides. APNI. 14 October 2020.
  4. Sprengel . Kurt P.J. . Linnaeus . Carl (ed.) . Dieterich . Johann C. . Sprengel . Anton . Curae Posteriores. . Systema Vegetabilium . 1827 . 4 . 2 . 45 . 28 October 2020.