Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persoonia pinifolia
Common name
Pine-leaved geebung
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast and ranges north from west of Nowra. Most records north of Wollongong.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high, hairs greyish, appressed to spreading. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–7 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, cylindrical, sparsely to moderately hairy when young, becoming hairless when mature. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 8–9 mm long, more or less fused at the base, moderately hairy. Flowers spreading, subtended by small leaves and scale leaves, in 30–200-flowered clusters. Flowers chiefly Dec.–Mar.
Occasionally hybridises with Persoonia isophylla and Persoonia linearis.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~pinifolia (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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