Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia nutans

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer S Douglas, Agnes Banks Nature Reserve, east of Richmond

Common name

Nodding geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

 Dry forest and woodland. Western Sydney.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high, hairs greyish, mostly appressed. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branches sparsely to moderately hairy with greyish hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–4.5 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, usually flat, with curved down margins, upper surface a very different colour from the lower surface, surfaces sparsely hairy when immature, becoming hairless when mature. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 8.5–11 mm long, more or less fused at the base, hairless. Flowers drooping, on stalks 7–12 mm long, mostly subtended by leaves, in 1–40-flowered clusters. Flowering: mostly November-April.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Protected NSW.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10598 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

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