Persoonia recedens Gand. APNI* Synonyms: Persoonia nutans subsp. C sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) p.p. APNI*
Description: Prostrate to spreading shrub, young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy.
Leaves narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic, 1.0–2.0 cm long, 1.2–3.5 mm wide, flat, with flat to recurved margins, concolorous to slightly discolorous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent when mature, smooth but with prominent longitudinal wrinkles on lower surface when dried; venation obscure.
Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by reduced leaves or leaves; pedicels 2–3.5 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous. Tepals 9–10 mm long, apiculate, glabrous. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in dry sclerophyll forest, on sandstone; higher Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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