Biology:Persoonia volcanica
| Persoonia volcanica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Persoonia |
| Species: | P. volcanica
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| Persoonia volcanica P.H.Weston & L.A.S.Johnson[1]
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Persoonia volcanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped to oblong leaves, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to 180 mm (7.1 in) that usually continues to grow after flowering, each flower with a leaf at its base.
Description
Persoonia volcanica is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.8–6 m (5 ft 11 in–19 ft 8 in) and has smooth bark, and branchlets that are covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs when young. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong, 20–90 mm (0.79–3.54 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to twenty along a rachis up to 180 mm (7.1 in) long that continues to grow after flowering, each flower on a pedicel 1.5–10 mm (0.059–0.394 in) long, usually with a leaf at its base. The tepals are yellow and 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to February and the fruit is a green drupe.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy and naming
Persoonia volcanica was first formally described in 1991 by Peter H. Weston and Lawrie Johnson from a specimen collected near Woodenbong in 1989 and the description was published in Telopea.[4][6] The specific epithet (volcanica) is a reference to the substrate on which this species usually grows.[4]
Distribution and habitat
This geebung grows in forest and the margins of rainforest on the McPherson Range on the New South Wales-Queensland border and disjunctly in Kroombit Tops National Park further north.[3][4]
References
- ↑ "Persoonia volcanica". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/118799.
- ↑ "Persoonia volcanica L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government. http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=44634.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Weston, Peter H.. "Persoonia volcanica". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Persoonia%20volcanica.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Weston, Peter H.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (1 March 1991). "Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea 4 (2): 299–300. doi:10.7751/telopea19914929.
- ↑ Weston, Peter H.. "Persoonia volcanica". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~volcanica.
- ↑ "Persoonia volcanica". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/552974.
Wikidata ☰ Q18082400 entry
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