Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Petrophile pulchella
Common name
Conesticks
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and eastern edge of the tablelands, north from Sassafras and Ulladulla.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets and leaves hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 4–10 cm long overall; deeply divided and often divided again, the undivided part about the same length as the divided part. Leaf segments clyindrical, tips pointed. Flowers cream to pale yellow, with 4 'petals', free from each other to the base or united at the base, each 6–14 mm long. Flowers in dense, more or less oval, clusters. Flowering: most of the year, mainly Aug.-Mar.. Cones oblong-oval, 30–65 mm long, on stalks 0-10 mm long.
Hybridises with Petrophile pedunculata. Intergrades with Petrophile canescens 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~pulchella (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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