Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia marginata

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Unripe fruit and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub.  Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Clandulla Geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Western Blue Mountains and the Capertee district.

Notes

Shrub to 0.6 m high and up to 1 m in diameter, spreading to sprawling. Fruit fleshy. Bark poorly developed. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy with greyish hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–4 cm long, 6–23 mm wide, flat, twisted through 0–90°, sparsely hairy when young and hairless when mature, and smooth to slightly rough. Flowers with 4 'petals', yellow with brownish hairs, each 8–12 mm long, more or less fused at the base, sparsely to moderately hairy. Flowers erect to spreading, mostly subtended by leaves, in 2–4-flowered clusters. Flowers Jan.–Feb. 

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Protected NSW.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10596 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~marginata (accessed 7 January, 2021)