Persoonia brevifolia

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Persoonia brevifolia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species:
P. brevifolia
Binomial name
Persoonia brevifolia
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Synonyms [1]
  • Persoonia myrtilloides var. brevifoliaBenth.
  • Persoonia sp. C (aff. myrtilloides)

Persoonia brevifolia is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near the border between south-eastern New South Wales and Victoria. It is an erect shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and cylindrical yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

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Description

Persoonia brevifolia is an erect shrub growing to a height of 0.8–1.5 m (2 ft 7 in – 4 ft 11 in) and has smooth bark and moderately hairy young branches. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long, 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) wide and sparsely hairy when young but become glabrous as they age. The upper surface is distinctly darker than the lower surface. The flowers are yellow and arranged singly in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. The four tepals are 5–12 mm (0.2–0.5 in) long. Flowering occurs from December to March the fruit is an oval drupe. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy

This geebung was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham and given the name Persoonia myrtilloides var. brevifolia in Flora Australiensis , from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller at "Upper Genoa River and Nangatta Mountains up to 4,000 ft (1,200 m) elevation". [7] [8] In 1991, Lawrie Johnson and Peter Weston raised the variety to species status as Persoonia brevifolia in the journal Telopea . [2] [9]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in eucalypt forest at altitudes between 200 and 1,100 m (660 and 3,610 ft) on a few peaks near the New South Wales–Victoria border and near the upper Genoa River in far eastern Victoria. [3] [4] [5]

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<i>Persoonia helix</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Persoonia oleoides</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Persoonia brevirhachis</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Persoonia hexagona</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Persoonia cymbifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Persoonia acuminata</i> Species of shrub

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<i>Persoonia angustiflora</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Persoonia filiformis</i> Species of flowering plant

Persoonia filiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, linear leaves and greenish yellow flowers borne singly or in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to 30 mm (1.2 in) long.

Persoonia brachystylis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area on the west coast of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with smooth bark, narrow spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of ten to twenty.

Persoonia kararae is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Perenjori district of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with densely hairy branchlets, linear leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to ten on a rachis up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long.

References

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  2. 1 2 Weston, Peter H.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (1991). "Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea. 4 (2): 275–276. doi: 10.7751/telopea19914929 .
  3. 1 2 Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia brevifolia". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. 1 2 Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia brevifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  5. 1 2 Jeanes, Jeff A. "Persoonia brevifolia". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  6. "Persoonia brevifolia (Benth.) L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
  7. "Persoonia myrtilloides var. acuminata". APNI. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  8. Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1870). Flora Australiensis. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 401. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  9. "Persoonia acuminata". APNI. Retrieved 6 October 2020.