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Persoonia helix P.H.Weston

Reference
Telopea 6:101-102 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-2.8 m high. Fl. yellow, Nov to Dec or Jan to Feb. Yellow sand or sandy loam, often over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 20-30 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, hairy; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, scabrous, the margins flat; apex acute. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 3-5 mm long, hairy. Perianth 9-11 mm long, radially symmetrical, glabrous; anther appendage absent; ovary glabrous; pistil 9-10 mm long. Flowers in January, February or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coolgardie, Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Yilgarn.