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Persoonia micranthera P.H.Weston

Reference
Telopea 6:116-117 (1994)
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

Decumbent to prostrate shrub, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug. Sandy, stony soils. Summit of plateau.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.10-0.40 m high; branchlets hairy, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 35-90 mm long, 7-30 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, entire, smooth, the margins flat; apex obtuse. Perianth 13-14 mm long, radially symmetrical, hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 0.3-0.4 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 10 mm long. Follicles 0 mm long. Flowers in August. Occurs in the in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

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