Persoonia micranthera P.H.Weston

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Persoonia

Characteristics

Decumbent to prostrate shrubs 10-40 cm tall. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves spathulate to obovate to oblanceolate, 4-8 cm long, 8-30 mm wide, flat, with slightly recurved margins, spreading to erect, straight, twisted through 0-90°, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic, 4-15-flowered; rachis 1-6 cm long. Pedicels 2.5-8 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately hairy. Tepals 10.5-14 mm long, acute, moderately hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 0.2-0.3 mm long.
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Grows as an understory shrub in montane thicket vegetation, in sandy, stony soil.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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Distribution

Persoonia micranthera world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Persoonia micranthera threat status: Critically Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:979912-1
WFO ID wfo-0000477657
COL ID 776SK
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Synonyms

Persoonia micranthera