Persoonia coriacea

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Leathery-leaf persoonia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species:
P. coriacea
Binomial name
Persoonia coriacea
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Persoonia coriacea, commonly known as the leathery-leaf persoonia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with smooth bark, spatula-shaped or elliptic to linear leaves and bright yellow flowers borne in groups of up to ten along a rachis up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long.

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Description

Persoonia cordifolia is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–2 m (1 ft 0 in–6 ft 7 in) with several to many stems arising from the base and has smooth, mottled grey bark. The branches and leaves are hairy at first but become glabrous with age. The leaves are arranged alternately, spatula-shaped or elliptic to linear, 20–65 mm (0.79–2.56 in) long, 3–13 mm (0.12–0.51 in) wide and twisted through up to 90° so that the leaves are held in the vertical plane. Some populations, such as plants near Yellowdine, have more twisted leaves than others. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to ten along a rachis up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long that usually grows into a leafy shoot after flowering, each flower on a pedicel 2.5–9 mm (0.098–0.354 in) long. The tepals are bright yellow, 6.5–11.5 mm (0.26–0.45 in) long with bright yellow anthers. Flowering occurs from November to February and the fruit is an oval drupe 7–13 mm (0.28–0.51 in) long and 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) wide containing a single seed. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy and naming

Persoonia coriacea was first formally described in 1928 by James Wales Claredon Audas and Patrick Francis Morris from specimens collected by Max Koch near Merredin on 30 November 1923. The description was published in the Journal of the Royal Soceity of Western Australia . [7] [8] Within the genus Persoonia , P. coriacea is classified in the lanceolata group, a group of 54 closely related species with similar flowers but very different foliage. These species will often interbreed with each other where two members of the group occur. In the case of this species, it hybridizes with P. helix . [3] [9]

Distribution and habitat

Persoonia coriacea is found in the southwest of Western Australia, from Carnamah southwards to Lake Grace and Lake King and east across to Plumridge Lakes. It grows on yellow sand dunes or sandplains, or on sandy clay soils, sometimes over laterite, red sand or granite and occurs in heathland and mallee heath plant communities. [3] [5] The uncommon blue-breasted fairywren has been recorded using this shrub as a nest site. [10]

Use in horticulture

Held to have little horticultural appeal, Persoonia coriacea is not known to be cultivated. [2]

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<i>Persoonia oblongata</i> species of plant

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<i>Persoonia conjuncta</i> species of plant

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<i>Persoonia brevirhachis</i> species of plant

Persoonia brevirhachis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, often spreading shrub with smooth, compact bark, mostly narrow spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow to greenish yellow flowers borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

<i>Persoonia curvifolia</i> species of plant

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Persoonia bowgada is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with smooth bark, more or less cylindrical leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to ten on the ends of branches.

<i>Persoonia acuminata</i> species of plant

Persoonia acuminata is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a spreading or prostrate shrub with relatively small leaves and cylindrical yellow flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to sixteen in leaf axils or on the ends of the branches. It grows in moist forest on the higher parts of the tablelands.

<i>Persoonia amaliae</i> species of plant

Persoonia amaliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with hairy young branches, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to eleven.

Persoonia baeckeoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading, many-branched shrub with smooth bark, spatula-shaped leaves and greenish yellow flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to three.

Persoonia cordifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, rounded to spreading shrub with smooth, mottled grey bark, broadly heart-shaped leaves and bright yellow flowers borne in groups of two to eight along a rachis up to 25 mm (0.98 in) long.

<i>Persoonia chapmaniana</i> species of plant

Persoonia chapmaniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with smooth, compact bark, linear leaves with a sharp point on the tip and yellow flowers borne in groups of five to thirty along a rachis up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long.

<i>Persoonia angustiflora</i> species of plant

Persoonia angustiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branches and leaves, linear, more or less cylindrical leaves and yellow or greenish yellow flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to four.

<i>Persoonia acicularis</i> species of plant

Persoonia acicularis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear, sharply-pointed leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to eighty.

Persoonia biglandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading or low-lying shrub with smooth bark, linear leaves and bright yellow flowers in groups of between eight and twenty-five on the ends of branches.

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.

<i>Persoonia comata</i> species of plant

Persoonia comata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, sometimes spreading to low-lying shrub with mostly smooth bark, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow flowers usually in groups of ten to fifty along a rachis up to 250 mm (9.8 in) long.

<i>Persoonia saccata</i> species of plant

Persoonia saccata, commonly known as snottygobble, and cadgeegurrup in indigenous language, is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually an erect shrub and has linear leaves and groups of up to fifty or more irregularly shaped, yellow flowers which are hairy on the outside. It usually grows in woodland dominated by jarrah, marri or large Banksia species.

References

  1. ↑ "Persoonia coriacea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Wrigley, John; Fagg, Murray (1991). Banksias, Waratahs and Grevilleas. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. p. 479. ISBN   0-207-17277-3.
  3. 1 2 3 Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia coriacea". Flora of Australia online. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Weston, Peter H. (1994). "The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae)". Telopea. 6 (1): 99–101. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Persoonia coriacea". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  6. ↑ Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia coriacea". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  7. ↑ "Persoonia coriacea". APNI. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  8. ↑ Audas, James W.C.; Morris, Patrick Francis (1928). "A New Species of Persoonia from Western Australia". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia: 81–82. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  9. ↑ Weston, Peter H. (2003). "Proteaceae subfamily Persoonioideae". Australian Plants . 22 (175): 62–78.
  10. ↑ Brooker, Michael; Brooker, Lesley (2001). "Breeding biology, reproductive success and survival of blue-breasted fairy-wrens in fragmented habitat in the Western Australian wheatbelt". Wildlife Research. 28 (2): 205–14. doi:10.1071/WR00012.
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