Petrophile seminuda Lindl.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Petrophile

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous, rarely puberulous. Leaves 3-12.8 cm long overall; petiole 14-40 mm long; lamina terete, usually divided into 2 or 3 main lobes which are often further divided, rigid, pungent; pinnae variable, 5-50 mm long. Inflorescence globular or ovoid, terminal, sessile, 10-20 mm long; involucral bracts numerous, ±ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous outside, densely hairy inside; cone scales broad, woolly-tomentose at base; tips glabrous, deciduous. Flowers 8-12 mm long, yellow, glabrous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3 mm long, yellow, very shortly and sparsely hairy. Cones ovoid or almost globular, 10-40 mm long. Nuts c. 5 mm long.
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Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 1.2
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Grows in disturbed, open woodland, in shrubland and heathland in laterite, in low shrubland in brownish sandy soil and on sandplain.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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Images

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Distribution

Petrophile seminuda world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705564-1
WFO ID wfo-0000483017
COL ID 776FJ
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Synonyms

Petrophile seminuda Isopogon pedunculatus