Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Petrophile sessilis

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, west of Vincentia

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Bylong, NSW

Common name

Conesticks

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Leaf tips more or less sharp. Branchlets and leaves hairless or hairy with minute hairs, almost silky when young. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 3–10 cm long, at right angles to the stem, deeply divided and divided again, the undivided part shorter than the divided part. Leaf segments cylindrical, rigid. Flowers creamy yellow, with 4 'petals', free from each other to the base or united at the base, each 10–14 mm long, silky. Flowers in dense, more or less oval, clusters. Flowers May-Feb.Cones oblong-oval, 20–35 mm long, on stalks 0-10 mm long.

Protected NSW.

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