Persoonia oblongata

Persoonia oblongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species: P. oleoides
Binomial name
Persoonia oleoides
R.Br.

Persoonia oblongata is a shrub endemic to New South Wales in eastern Australia.[1] It is one of the many species authored by Robert Brown.[2] Erect to spreading shrub, young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy.

Leaves lanceolate to broad-ovate or narrow- to broad-elliptic, 1.5–6 cm long, 4–25 mm wide, flat, glabrous to sparsely hairy when young, glabrescent when mature, smooth.

Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 9–23 mm long, recurved, glabrous. Tepals 10–12 mm long, apiculate to caudate, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Ovary glabrous to moderately hairy.[3]

References

  1. New South Wales Flora Online: Persoonia oblongata by P.H. Weston, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia.
  2. "Persoonia oblongata R.Br.". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~oblongata


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