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Persoonia teretifolia R.Br.

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:160 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, spreading shrub, 0.5-3 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb. Yellow or white sand to clay, often over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 29 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 8-15 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, scabrous; apex acute. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 2-4 mm long, hairy. Perianth 9-13 mm long, irregular, hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 0.5-0.7 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 4-6 mm long. Flowers in January, February, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Eucla, WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.