Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia microphylla

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

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, near Nerriga

Common name

A Geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Ranges and tablelands, mainly north of the Kings Highway.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high or prostrate. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets moderately hairy with whitish or greyish hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–0.9 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, convex in cross section, with curved to rolled down margins, usually curved down towards the tips, upper surface a slightly different colour from the lower surface, surfaces sparsely to moderately hairy when young, sparsely hairy when mature, and rough. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 8–10 mm long, more or less fused at the base. Flowers erect to spreading, mostly subtended by leaves, in 1–14-flowered clusters. Flowers mainly Dec.-Feb.

Grows together with Persoonia mollis subsp. livens in the Nerriga area and occasionally hybridises with it.

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~microphylla (accessed 31 January, 2021)