Persoonia rufa L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston APNI* Synonyms: Persoonia cornifolia subsp. C sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Description: Erect to spreading shrub, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.
Leaves elliptic to broad-elliptic, 3–8 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately so when mature, scabrous.
Inflorescences terminated by a dormant bud or growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy. Tepals 10–14 mm long, caudate, moderately to densely hairy. Ovary densely hairy.
Distribution and occurrence: in heath to dry sclerophyll forest on granite; confined to the Gibraltar Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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