Biology:Persoonia microphylla

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Short description: Species of shrub

Persoonia microphylla
Persoonia microphylla.jpg
In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species:
P. microphylla
Binomial name
Persoonia microphylla
Synonyms[1]

Persoonia oxycoccoides var. microphylla (R.Br.) Domin

Habit

Persoonia microphylla is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to fourteen on a rachis up to 30 mm (1.2 in) long.

Description

Persoonia microphylla is an erect to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has smooth bark, its young branchlets covered with whitish or greyish hairs. The leaves are broadly elliptical to broadly egg-shaped, 3–9 mm (0.12–0.35 in) long and 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) wide with the edges turned downwards. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to fourteen along a rachis up to 30 mm (1.2 in) long that grows into a leafy shoot after flowering. Each flower is on a pedicel about 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long, usually with a leaf at the base. The tepals are yellow, 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from December to February and the fruit is a green drupe with purple stripes.[2][3][4][5]

Taxonomy

Persoonia microphylla was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in the 1830 supplement to his Prodromus from specimens collected in 1823 near Port Jackson by "D. Cunningham".[6][7]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in heath and forest in eastern New South Wales at altitudes between 600 and 1,200 m (2,000 and 3,900 ft), occurring disjunctly near Taralga and in river catchments of the Budawang Range.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Persoonia microphylla". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/114091. 
  2. "Persoonia microphylla R.Br.". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government. http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=44611. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Weston, Peter H.. "Persoonia microphylla". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Persoonia%20microphylla. 
  4. Weston, Peter H.. "Persoonia microphylla". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~microphylla. 
  5. Weston, Peter H.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (1 March 1991). "Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea 4 (2): 280–281. doi:10.7751/telopea19914929. 
  6. "Persoonia microphylla". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/548001. 
  7. Brown, Robert (1830). Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae:. London. p. 15. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77294#page/529/mode/1up. Retrieved 22 October 2020. 

Wikidata ☰ Q22286083 entry