Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia pinifolia
Pine-leaved geebung
Proteaceae
Dry forest and heath. Coast and ranges north from west of Nowra. Most records north of Wollongong.
Shrub to 4 m high, hairs greyish, appressed to spreading. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3β7 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, cylindrical, sparsely to moderately hairy when young, becoming hairless when mature. Flowers with 4 yellow 'petals' each 8β9 mm long, more or less fused at the base, moderately hairy. Flowers spreading, subtended by small leaves and scale leaves, in 30β200-flowered clusters. Flowers chiefly Dec.βMar.
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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