Persoonia procumbens L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston APNI* Synonyms: Persoonia prostrata subsp. C sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Description: Prostrate shrub, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.
Leaves obovate to spathulate to cuneate, 1.5–3.6 cm long, 4–17 mm wide, flat, with slightly recurved margins, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent when mature, smooth.
Inflorescences terminated by a dormant bud or growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy. Tepals 7–9 mm long, apiculate, sparsely hairy. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in woodland to dry sclerophyll forest on granite; from the Ebor-Backwater district.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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