Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persoonia glaucescens
Common name
Mittagong geebung
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. Buxton to Berrima.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets moderately hairy, brownish-red. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–8 cm long, 4–18 mm wide, twisted at the base through 90°, sparsely hairy and strongly glaucous especially when young. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 11–12 mm long, more or less fused at the base, sparsely to moderately hairy. Flowers erect, mostly subtended by leaves, in 1–30-flowered clusters. Flowers summer to autumn. Fruit resembling a small plum.
Vulnerable Australia. Endangered NSW. Protected NSW.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10593 (accessed 7 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~glaucescens (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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