Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persoonia oblongata
Common name
A geebung
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Mainly Sydney area and the Blue Mountains. Occasionally farther south.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high, hairs greyish, appressed to spreading. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–6 cm long, 4–25 mm wide, twisted at the base through 90°, usually flat, with curved down margins, surfaces sparsely hairy when immature, becoming hairless when mature, and smooth. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 10–12 mm long, more or less fused at the base, hairless to sparsely hairy. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves, in clusters of 1–16 flowers, on curved down stalks 9–23 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Apr.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~oblongata (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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