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Persoonia graminea R.Br.

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:164 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to decumbent weak shrub, 0.2-0.6 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan. Peaty to sandy or loamy soils. Winter-wet flats, swamps.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.2-0.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 150-370 mm long, 2-15 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, smooth, the margins revolute; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 1.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 4.5-5.5 mm long, radially symmetrical, hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 1.2-1.5 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 3.6-4.5 mm long. Flowers in October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Manjimup, Nannup.