Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persoonia isophylla
Common name
A geebung
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Gosford area south to Frenchs Forest.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets sparsely hairy with greyish hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.2–3 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, cylindrical, hairless, tips often curved. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 7–8 mm long, more or less fused at the base, sparsely hairy or hairless. Flowers erect to spreading, mostly subtended by full-sized leaves, in mostly 10–70-flowered clusters. Flowers Jan.-July.
Very occasionally hybridises with Persoonia pinifolia.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~isophylla (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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