Persoonia subvelutina L.A.S.Johnson APNI*
Description: Spreading shrub or small tree, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.
Leaves narrow-elliptic to elliptic, oblanceolate to obovate or narrow-spathulate to spathulate, 3–7 cm long, 6–15 mm wide, flat, with recurved to revolute margins, sometimes slightly incurved, moderately to densely hairy when young, sparsely to moderately so when mature, minutely scabrous.
Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 1–4 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy. Tepals 11–15 mm long, apiculate to caudate, moderately to densely hairy. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in woodland to wet sclerophyll forest; ranges south from Brindabella.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by P.H. Weston Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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