Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia oxycoccoides

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

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer N Lamb, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Tablelands and ranges north from east of Nimmitabel.

Notes

Shrub to 0.9 m high or prostrate, hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–1.1 cm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, flat, with curved down margins, upper surface more or less a different colour from the ower surface, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, becoming hairless to sparsely so when mature, and smooth to slightly rough. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 8–11 mm long, more or less fused at the base, hairless. Flowers erect to spreading, subtended by small leaves or leaves, in 1–13-flowered clusters.

Intergrades with Persoonia acuminata in a limited area between Jenolan Caves and Kanangra Walls. Hybridises occasionally with Persoonia levis.

Protected NSW.

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