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Persoonia saccata R.Br.
Snottygobble

Reference
Prodr. Suppl. 12 (1830)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, sometimes spreading to decumbent, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow/green-yellow, Jul to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, gravel, sandy clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 29 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.2-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, ribbed. Leaves alternate, 25-100 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, smooth, the margins revolute; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 5-7 mm long, hairy. Perianth 11-12 mm long, irregular, hairy, the hairs appressed or spreading; anther appendage present, 1.2-1.7 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 6-8 mm long. Flowers in January, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
Central West Coast, Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Bayswater, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Chittering, Claremont, Cockburn, Donnybrook-Balingup, Fremantle, Gingin, Gosnells, Harvey, Kalamunda, Kwinana, Mandurah, Melville, Murray, Nannup, Perth, Rockingham, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Stirling, Swan, Wanneroo, Waroona.