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Persoonia brachystylis F.Muell.
Short-styled Persoonia

Reference
Fragm. (Mueller) 6:221 (1868)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, spreading shrub, 1-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow, Nov to Dec or Jan. Yellow or grey sand, often over laterite. Sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, ribbed. Leaves alternate, 40-110 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, hairy; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, scabrous, the margins flat; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 7-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 10-11 mm long, irregular, hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 0.7-1 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 5-8 mm long. Flowers in January, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Northampton.