Persoonia oleoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to twenty-five on a rachis up to 130 mm (5.1 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. oleoides
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| Persoonia oleoides | |
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Persoonia oxycoccoides var. longifolia Benth. | |
Description
editPersoonia oleoides is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) and has smooth bark with young branchlets covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblong to elliptical, egg-shaped or spatula-shaped, 20–60 mm (0.79–2.36 in) long and 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, sometimes on a rachis with a dormant bud on the end, sometimes on a rachis that continues to grow into a leafy branch. In the first case, there are up to three flowers on a rachis up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long. In the case of a rachis that grows into a leafy shoot, there are up to twenty-five flowers on a rachis up to 130 mm (5.1 in) long. Each flower is on a pedicel 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long, the tepals are yellow, hairy and 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long. Flowering occurs from January to February and the fruit is a green drupe, sometimes with purple stripes.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
editPersoonia oleoides was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Peter Weston in the journal Telopea.[5][6]
Distribution and habitat
editThis geebung grows in forest between the upper Clarence River, the upper Macleay River and Barrington Tops in eastern New South Wales.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Persoonia oleoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ "Persoonia oleoides L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
- ^ a b Weston, Peter. "Persoonia oleoides". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ a b Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia oleioides". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ a b Weston, Peter H.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (1 March 1991). "Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea. 4 (2): 296–297. doi:10.7751/telopea19914929.
- ^ "Persoonia oleoides". APNI. Retrieved 27 October 2020.