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Persoonia manotricha A.S.Markey & R.Butcher

Reference
Nuytsia 17:141-145, Figs 1b, e, 4 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 1-4 m high, bark smooth, mottled, pinkish-grey. Skeletal,shallow red-brown loam, sandy loams, clayey sand, laterite, granite. Rocky sites, sand ridges, sandplains, gently inclined to moerately steep footslopes, hillslopes and crests.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 May 2008

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-4 m high; branchlets hairy, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 40-90 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, hairy or glabrous; lamina terete, more or less the same width throughout, entire, smooth; apex pungent. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 7 mm long, hairy. Perianth 13-20 mm long, radially symmetrical, hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 1-1.2 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 9-10 mm long. Flowers in November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Murchison, Geraldton Hills, Merredin, Tallering.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Greater Geraldton, Murchison, Perenjori, Sandstone, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.