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Persoonia tenuifolia R.Br.
Family Proteaceae
Common name: Fine-leaf Geebung

Persoonia tenuifolia R.Br. APNI*

Description: Erect to decumbent shrub, young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy.

Leaves subterete and channelled above, 0.9–2.5 cm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, usually strongly incurved, smooth, glabrous.

Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by full-sized leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, spreading to suberect, glabrous. Tepals 8–10 mm long, obtuse or shortly apiculate, glabrous. Ovary glabrous.


Flower
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Fruit
Photo J. & P. Edwards

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Distribution and occurrence: in heath or dry sclerophyll forest on acid sand; north from Ramornie, Torrington and Yetman.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

This species apparently hybridizes with P. stradbrokensis, P. cornifolia and P. sericea where it grows with these species.

Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)


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***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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