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Persoonia flexifolia R.Br.

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:162 (1810)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Upright shrub. Fl. Dec or Jan. Lateritic soils with granitic rock. River banks.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 10-20 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, scabrous, the margins flat; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 2-3 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 12-13 mm long, radially symmetrical, glabrous; anther appendage absent; ovary glabrous; pistil 9-10 mm long. Flowers in January or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance.