Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Petrophile pedunculata

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, west of Huskisson

Branches with flowers and old seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer R Hotchkiss, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Conesticks

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest and wet and dry heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north of Batemans Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Branchlets and leaves hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 7-18.5 cm long overall, deeply divided and often divided again, the undivided part shorter than the divided part. Leaf segments cylindrical, spreading, tips not sharp. Flowers yellow or cream, with 4 'petals', free from each other to the base or united at the base, each 7–10 mm long, hairless. Flowers in dense, more or less oval, clusters. Flowers Oct.-Jan. Cones oblong-oval, 15–40 mm long, on stalks 10–30 mm long.

Hybridises with Petrophile pulchella.

Protected NSW.

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