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Persoonia chamaepeuce Lhotsky ex Meisn.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Persoonia

Characteristics

Decumbent to prostrate shrubs to 20 cm tall. Bark poorly developed. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets glabrous to sparsely hairy. Leaves linear, 8-25 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, flat to concave, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-20-flowered; rachis 0-3.5 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 3-6 mm long, erect to recurved, glabrous to sparsely hairy; tepals 9-13 mm long, caudate, glabrous or rarely sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
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It is a low spreading shrub. It grows 10-20 cm high and spreads 1-2 m wide. Young growth is faintly hairy. They branches lie along the ground. The leaves are 0.8-2.5 cm long by 0.2 cm wide. They are narrow and alternate. They are deep green. The flowers are 0.7 cm across. They are yellow. They are on short stalks near the ends of small branches. The fruit are fleshy and small and green. They have one stone inside.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0 - 2.0
Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in woodland and dry forest on well drained acid soils. It can grow in sun or light shade. It can stand frost.
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Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland to wet sclerophyll forest, mostly on granite and metamorphic substrata at elevations of 300-1600 metres.
Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland to wet sclerophyll forest, mostly on granite and metamorphic substrata, from 300 to 1600 m alt.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

Usage

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Edible fruits seeds
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.
Mode seedlings
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Germination treatment scarification
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
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Images

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Distribution

Persoonia chamaepeuce world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Persoonia chamaepeuce threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705387-1
WFO ID wfo-0000483284
COL ID 6V7B8
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Persoonia effusa Linkia chamaepeuce Persoonia viridula Persoonia myrioclada Persoonia chamaepeuce
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