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Persoonia microphylla R.Br.
Family Proteaceae
Persoonia microphylla R.Br. APNI*

Synonyms: Persoonia nutans subsp. F sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*

Description: Prostrate to erect shrub, young branchlets moderately hairy.

Leaves broad-elliptic to ovate to broad-ovate, 0.3–0.9 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, convex, with recurved to revolute margins, usually recurved towards the tip, slightly discolorous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, sparsely so when mature, scabrous; venation obscure.

Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous to moderately hairy. Tepals 8–10 mm long, acute to apiculate, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Ovary glabrous.


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Distribution and occurrence: in montane heath to dry sclerophyll forest, usually on sandstone; from Mt Werong to Taralga on the Great Divide and in the Corang and Endrick R. catchments of Budawang Ra.
NSW subdivisions: CT, ST
AVH map***

This species occasionally hybridizes with P. mollis subsp. livens where they grow together.

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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