Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Petrophile canescens

Common name

Conesticks

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest and dry and wet heath. Ranges and tablelands north from Tallaganda National Park SW of Braidwood.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets and leaves hoary to more or lesssilky, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–11 cm long overall, deeply divided and divided again, the undivided part longer than the divided part, leaves not rigid. Leaf segments cylidrical, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers white to yellow, with 4 'petals' free from each other or united at the base, each 9–14 mm long, appressed silky. Flowers in dense, more or less oval, clusters. Flowers Sept.-Jan. Cones oblong-oval, sometimes globular, 15–40 mm long, on stalks 0-10 mm long.

Intergrades with Petrophile pulchella in areas of the central tablelands.

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Petrophile~canescens  (accessed 31 January, 2021)