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Persoonia coriacea Audas & P.Morris
Leathery-leaf Persoonia

Reference
J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 15:81 (1930)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. yellow, Nov to Dec or Jan to Feb. Yellow sand or sandy clay, sometimes over laterite, red sand, granite. Sandplains, dune crests.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 20-60 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, scabrous, the margins flat; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 4-7 mm long, hairy. Perianth 9-10 mm long, radially symmetrical, glabrous; anther appendage absent; ovary glabrous; pistil 8-10 mm long. Flowers in January, February, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Central, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Coolgardie, Coorow, Dalwallinu, Dumbleyung, Dundas, Esperance, Kondinin, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Menzies, Merredin, Moora, Mount Marshall, Narembeen, Perenjori, Tammin, Victoria Plains, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyalkatchem, Yilgarn.