Persoonia confertiflora
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Speciesbox
|name = Cluster-flower geebung
|image = Persoonia confertiflora.jpg
|genus = Persoonia
|species = confertiflora
|authority = Benth.{{cite web|title=Persoonia confertiflora|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/112134|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=8 October 2020}}
|synonyms = Linkia confertiflora (Benth.) Kuntze
|range_map = PersooniaconfertifloraDistMap16.png
|range_map_caption = Occurrence data downloaded from AVH
}}
Persoonia confertiflora, commonly known as cluster-flower geebung,{{cite web |last1=Jeanes |first1=Jeff A. |title=Persoonia confertiflora |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/1b97470f-b1e9-49c2-9805-a6616fbb8b01 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=8 October 2020}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with hairy young branches, egg-shaped to narrow elliptic leaves, and hairy yellow flowers borne on leaf axils or on the ends of short branches.
Description
Persoonia confertiflora is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.5–2|m}} with branches and leaves that are covered with light brown to rust-coloured hairs when young. The leaves are usually arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped to narrow elliptic or lance-shaped, {{cvt|3–90|mm}} long and {{cvt|13–30|mm}} wide. The flowers are arranged in clusters in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets that do not continue growth after flowering. Each flower is on an erect, hairy pedicel {{cvt|1–2|mm}} long, the tepals {{cvt|12–14|mm}} long and hairy on the outside with a short spine on the tip, the anthers white. Flowering occurs from November to February and the fruit is an oval drupe about {{cvt|18|mm}} long and {{cvt|14|mm}} wide, that is green at first, later purplish.{{cite book |title=Wild Plants of Victoria (database)|year=2009 |publisher=Viridans Biological Databases & Department of Sustainability and Environment}}{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~confertiflora|title=Persoonia confertiflora|access-date=2011-03-07 |author=Weston, P.H.|work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia}}
Taxonomy
Persoonia confertiflora was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham in the fifth volume of Flora Australiensis.{{cite web|title=Persoonia confertiflora|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/544994|publisher=APNI|access-date=8 October 2020}}{{cite book |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Flora Australiensis |date=1870 |publisher=Lovell Reeve & Co. |location=London |page=396 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42576#page/404/mode/1up |access-date=8 October 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
Cluster-flower geebung grows in woodland and forest south from near Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales to eastern Victoria.
References
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)