Persoonia glaucescens Sieber ex Spreng. APNI* Synonyms: Persoonia lanceolata subsp. B sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Description: Erect shrub, young branchlets moderately hairy.
Leaves oblanceolate or narrow-spathulate, 3–8 cm long, 4–18 mm wide, flat, sparsely hairy and strongly pruinose when young, glabrescent when mature, smooth.
Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, erect, moderately hairy. Tepals 11–12 mm long, acuminate to caudate, sparsely to moderately hairy. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in woodland to dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone; from Picton to Berrima.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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