Persoonia daphnoides is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in eastern Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with spatula-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers in groups of up to eight on a rachis up to 35 mm (1.4 in) long.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Persoonia |
| Species: | P. daphnoides
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Description
editPersoonia daphnoides is a prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of about 10 cm (3.9 in) and has its young branchlets densely covered with light brown hairs. The leaves are spatula-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–50 mm (0.59–1.97 in) long, 4–20 mm (0.16–0.79 in) wide and twisted through 90°. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to eight along a rachis up to 35 mm (1.4 in) long that usually grows into a leafy shoot after flowering. Each flower is on an erect pedicel 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) long and the tepals are yellow, 9–10 mm (0.35–0.39 in) long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from December to January.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy
editPersoonia daphnoides was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. Brown's description was published in Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.[5][6]
Cunningham gave the type location as "near the Hunter's River" but Peter H. Weston and Lawrie Johnson consider that Cunningham's label is erroneus.[7]
Distribution and habitat
editThis geebung grows in woodland and forest near Tenterfield in New South Wales and nearby Stanthorpe in Queensland, at altitudes between 950 and 1,200 m (3,120 and 3,940 ft).
References
edit- ^ "Persoonia daphnoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "daphnoides A.Cunn. ex R.Br". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
- ^ Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia daphnoides". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia daphnoides". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Persoonia daphnoides". APNI. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ Brown, Robert (1830). Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae:. London. p. 15. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ Weston, Peter H.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (1 March 1991). "Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea. 4 (2): 301–302. doi:10.7751/telopea19914929.