Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia bargoensis

Common name

Bargo Geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and roadsides. Ranges and tablelands, mainly between Appin, Bargo and Thirlmere.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy with greyish appressed hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.8–2.4 cm long, 1–2.3 mm wide, flat or convex in cross section,  upper surface a slightly to strongly different colour from the lower surface, margins curved down, sometimes only curved down towards the tip, surfaces hairless to sparsely hairy. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 7–10 mm long, more or less fused at the base, hairless. Flowers spreading to curved down, mostly subtended by leaves, in 1-20 flowered clusters. Flowers Dec.–Jan. Fruit green, pear-shaped, to 12 mm long, hanging down.

Vulnerable Australia. Endangered NSW. Protected NSW.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10592 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

PlantNET description with line drawing:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~bargoensis 
(accessed 7 January, 2021)