Persoonia oxycoccoides Sieber ex Schult.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Persoonia

Characteristics

Spreading to prostrate shrubs to 90 cm tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic to ovate, 4-11 mm long, 1.5-6 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, spreading, straight, innocuous, slightly to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-13-flowered; rachis 0-3.5 cm long. Flowers subtended by reduced leaves or leaves; pedicels 2-5 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous or rarely very sparsely hairy; tepals 8-11 mm long, acute to apiculate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule usually 1.
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A very small shrub. It grows 0.5-1 m high and spreads 1-2.5 m wide. Young growth is hairy. There are many branches and they can lie along the ground. The small branches are reddish. The leaves are 0.4-1.2 cm long by 0.6 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. They are dark green and alternate. They are paler underneath. The edges curve back. The flowers are 0.8 cm across and yellow. They are often on leafy stalks 4 cm long. The fruit are 1 cm long by 0.6 cm wide. They are green.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature width (meter) 1.0 - 2.5
Mature height (meter) 0.9 - 1.0
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in dry forest. It grows on sandy soils. It needs well drained acid soils. It can tolerate frost and dry periods. In Wittunga Botanical Gardens Adelaide. It suits hardiness zones 8-10.
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Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in acid, sandy soils derived from sandstone, at elevations of 600-700 metres.
Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in acid, sandy soils derived from sandstone, at 600-700 m alt.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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Edible fruits seeds
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Cultivation

It can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.
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Images

Persoonia oxycoccoides unspecified picture

Distribution

Persoonia oxycoccoides world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Persoonia oxycoccoides threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705457-1
WFO ID wfo-0000477989
COL ID 6V74P
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Synonyms

Persoonia thymifolia Persoonia oxycoccoides Linkia oxycocodes