Persoonia brachystylis F.Muell.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Persoonia

Characteristics

Erect to spreading shrubs 1-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth, sometimes fissured at base. Hairs greyish to mid-brown, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves narrowly spathulate to linear-spathulate to linear-oblanceolate, 4.5-12 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, flat, with recurved to revolute margins, slightly incurved, spreading to suberect, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 10-20-flowered; rachis 7-25 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 7-15 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 10-13 mm long, acuminate, moderately hairy on outside; ventral tepal shallowly saccate. Anthers white; appendage obtuse, 0.8-1 mm long, not recurved.
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Grows in low heath, in yellow sand, often over laterite.
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Distribution

Persoonia brachystylis world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Persoonia brachystylis threat status: Vulnerable

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705382-1
WFO ID wfo-0000483286
COL ID 76VB6
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Synonyms

Linkia brachystylis Persoonia brachystylis