Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Persoonia subvelutina

Flower and very young fruit. Photographer Ken Thomas, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Ken Thomas, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Shrub. Photographer Dusty, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Fruit and leaves. Photographer John Bundock Namadgi National Park, ACT

Common name

Velvety Geebung

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and moist sites. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT. Occasionally in mountainous areas on the tablelands east of the ACT.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 5 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy with appressed to  spreading greyish to tawny hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems to almost opposite each other, 2.5–8 cm long, 3–18 mm wide, surfaces different colours, moderately to densely hairy when young, sparsely to moderately hairy when mature, and rough with minute projections, leavs flat, margins curved to rolled down, sometimes slightly curved upwards. Flowers with a pleasant vanilla scent, yellow to cream, with 4 moderately to densely hairy 'petals' each 10-15 mm long, more or less fused at the base. Anthers white, turning beige. Flowers erect, mostly subtended by leaves, in clusters of 1 to several flowers. Flowers Jan.–Mar. Fruit purplish when ripe.

Protected NSW.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Rare Vic.

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