Petrophile drummondii Meisn.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Petrophile

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous or pubescent when young. Leaves 20-50 mm long overall; petiole 10-26 mm long; lamina terete, 2-3-times ternately-divided or pinnate, rigid, pungent; lower pinnae 2-3-divided, 20-50 mm long overall; ultimate pinnae to 20 mm long. Inflorescence globular, terminal, solitary, sessile, c. 3-4 cm long; involucral bracts numerous, glutinous, ovate-lanceolate, deciduous, glabrous; cone scales broad, woolly-villous at base; tip acuminate, becoming obtuse, glabrous. Flowers c. 20 mm long, yellow, shortly villous, viscid, fragrant. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 5 mm long, orange, hirsute. Cones ±ovoid, 25-30 mm long. Nuts c. 4 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Grows in low, closed heath in sandy laterite and in pale bleached or deep grey sand; also in sandheath shrubland in grey to light brown sand.
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Images

Petrophile drummondii unspecified picture

Distribution

Petrophile drummondii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705531-1
WFO ID wfo-0000483256
COL ID 6V6GG
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Synonyms

Petrophile triternata Petrophile drummondii