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Persoonia falcata R.Br.
Wild Pear

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:162 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub or tree, 1-7 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow/cream-yellow, Jun to Sep or Nov. Sand, sandstone, alluvium. Along watercourses, sandstone cliffs & rocks, sometimes in gorges.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 1-9 m high; branchlets hairy, ribbed. Leaves alternate, 110-225 mm long, 5-22 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle or more or less the same width throughout, entire, smooth, the margins flat; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 5-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 10-13.5 mm long, irregular, glabrous or hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 0.3-0.4 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 4-6 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Northern (N) or Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Darwin Coastal, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Fitzroy Trough, Keep, McLarty, Mitchell, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.