Biology:Persoonia oxycoccoides

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Persoonia oxycoccoides
Persoonia oxycoccoides flowers.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. oxycoccoides
Binomial name
Persoonia oxycoccoides
Sieber ex Spreng.[1]
Habit in Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

Persoonia oxycoccoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. 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 90 cm (35 in) with smooth bark and sparsely to moderately hairy young branchlets. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, 4–11 mm (0.16–0.43 in) long and 1.5–6 mm (0.059–0.236 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to thirteen on a rachis up to 35 mm (1.4 in) long that continues to grow after flowering, each flower on a pedicel 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long with a leaf at its base. The tepals are yellow, 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from December to April.[2][3]

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first formally described in 1827 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in the 17th edition of Systema Vegetabilium from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber.[4][5]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in montane heath and in forest between Mittagong, Jamberoo and Tallong in south-eastern New South Wales.[3]

References

  1. "Persoonia oxycoccoides". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/114412. 
  2. "PlantNET - FloraOnline". nsw.gov.au. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~oxycoccoides. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Weston, Peter H.. "Persoonia oxycoccoides". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Persoonia%20oxycoccoides. 
  4. "Persoonia oxycoccoides". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/548452. 
  5. Sprengel, Kurt P.J.; Linnaeus, Carl (ed.); Dieterich, Johann C.; Sprengel, Anton (1827). "Curae Posteriores.". Systema Vegetabilium 4 (2): 45. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15255#page/637/mode/1up. Retrieved 28 October 2020. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7170726 entry