Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia chamaepeuce

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Flowering shrub with fruit. Photographer Don Wood, Mongarlowe east of Braidwood

Stem with ripe fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Common name

Dwarf Geebung, Yellow Geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and roadsides. Ranges, tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and the mountains west of Kosciuszko National Park towards Albury.

Notes

Prostrate or sprawling shrub to about 0.3 m high. Bark poorly developed. Young branchlets sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems or irregularly whorled, 0.8–3 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, flat to concave in cross section, bright green, surfaces smooth, usually hairless. Flowers yellow, with 4 'petals' each 9–13 mm long, more or less fused at the base, hairless, rarely sparsely hairy. Flowers erect to curved down, mostly subtended by leaves, in 1–20-flowered clusters. Flowers Summer to Autumn. Fruit hard and dry, yellow-green to green, or reddish to purple, hairless.

Hybridises sporadically with Persoonia asperula, Persoonia confertiflora, and Persoonia linearis where they grow together.

Protected NSW.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~chamaepeuce  (accessed 29 January, 2021)