Common name: Nodding Geebung
Persoonia nutans R.Br. APNI* Synonyms: Persoonia nutans subsp. A sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI* Persoonia nutans subsp. nutans R.Br. APNI*
Description: Erect to spreading shrub, young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy.
Leaves linear, 1–3 cm long, 1–1.8 mm wide, usually flat, with recurved margins, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent when mature, smooth.
Inflorescences usually growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 7–12 mm long, recurved, glabrous. Tepals 8.5–11 mm long, caudate, glabrous. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in woodland to dry sclerophyll forest on laterite and alluvial sand; confined to the Cumberland Plain.
NSW subdivisions: CC
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
Text by P.H. Weston Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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