Persoonia pungens W.Fitzg.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Persoonia

Characteristics

Spreading to decumbent shrubs with abundant, short lateral shoots 20-80 cm tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets densely hairy. Leaves elliptic to narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 5-15 mm long, 1-5 mm wide, flat, spreading to suberect, straight to slightly falcate, twisted through 0-360°, pungent, concolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic or anauxotelic, 1-5-flowered; rachis 0-5 mm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous to sparsely hairy; tepals 9-12.5 mm long, obtuse to acuminate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
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Grows in heath, in white or yellow sand to loam.
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Distribution

Persoonia pungens world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Persoonia pungens threat status: Critically Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705470-1
WFO ID wfo-0000477943
COL ID 76V4R
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Synonyms

Persoonia pungens