Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persoonia confertiflora
Common name
Cluster-flower Geebung
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Mostly coast, ranges, and tablelands south from Bombala, and Kosciuszko National Park. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high or sprawling. Fruit fleshy. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy, with tawny to bright brown hairs. Leaves opposite each other, sometimes alternating up the stems, 3–12 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, flat, with curved down margins, surfaces sparsely to moderately hairy when young, becoming hairless or sparsely hairy when mature. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 12–14 mm long, more or less fused at the base, densely hairy. Flowers erect, subtended by scale leaves, in tight clusters. Flowers Nov.–Feb. Fruit initially green, becoming purplish, to about 18 mm long, about 14 mm wide.
Hybridises sporadically with Persoonia chamaepeuce where they grow together.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~confertiflora
(accessed 30 January, 2021)
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