Persoonia chamaepitys A.Cunn.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Persoonia

Characteristics

Prostrate shrubs to 20 cm tall. Bark poorly developed. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves linear, 7-19 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, terete, and grooved underneath (when dry), spreading, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature, smooth or slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 2-3 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9-18 mm long, caudate, sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary densely hairy; hairs greyish to tawny; ovule 1.
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A shrub. It grows 20 cm tall and spreads 1-2 m wide. The leaves are like spines and are 1-2 cm long by 0.5-1 mm wide. The flowers are small and yellow.
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Mature width (meter) 1.0 - 2.0
Mature height (meter) 0.2
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It is a warm temperate plant. In NSW it grows between 360-1,100 m above sea level. It suits hardiness zones 9-11.
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Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone, from 360 m to 1100 m alt.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The skin is removed then the flesh of the fruit eaten.
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Edible fruits
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Images

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Distribution

Persoonia chamaepitys world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Persoonia chamaepitys threat status: Vulnerable

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705388-1
WFO ID wfo-0000483294
COL ID 76VB8
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Synonyms

Persoonia chamaepitys Linkia chamaepitys