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Persoonia lanceolata Andrews
Family Proteaceae
Common name: Lance Leaf Geebung

Persoonia lanceolata Andrews APNI*

Synonyms: Persoonia lanceolata subsp. A sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*

Description: Erect to spreading shrub, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.

Leaves oblanceolate to obovate or narrow-spathulate, 3–10 cm long, 4–32 mm wide, flat, glabrous to moderately hairy when young, glabrescent when mature, smooth.

Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by leaves; pedicels 1–5 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy. Tepals 10–12 mm long, acuminate to caudate, sparsely to densely hairy. Ovary glabrous.


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Distribution and occurrence: in heath to dry sclerophyll forest on coastal sand and sandstone, coast and ranges from South West Rocks to Sassafras.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, ?SC, CT, ST, CWS
AVH map***

This species occasionally hybridizes with P. linearis, P. katerae and P. virgata where it grows with these species.

Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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