Persoonia rigida R.Br. APNI*
Description: Erect to decumbent shrub, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.
Leaves oblanceolate or narrow-spathulate to spathulate, 1.5–4.5 cm long, 4–19 mm wide, flat or convex, with recurved margins, usually incurved, moderately to densely hairy when young, glabrescent to sparsely so when mature.
Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy. Tepals 10–12 mm long, apiculate to caudate, moderately hairy. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in woodland to dry sclerophyll forest, south from the Liverpool Ra.
NSW subdivisions: CC, NT, CT, ST, CWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by P.H. Weston Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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