Persoonia microphylla
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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|image = Persoonia microphylla.jpg
|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
|genus = Persoonia
|species = microphylla
|authority = R.Br.{{cite web|title=Persoonia microphylla|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/114091|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=22 October 2020}}
|synonyms = Persoonia oxycoccoides var. microphylla (R.Br.) Domin
}}
File:Persoonia microphylla habit.jpg
Persoonia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to fourteen on a rachis up to {{cvt|30|mm}} long.
Description
Persoonia microphylla is an erect to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of about {{cvt|2|m}} and has smooth bark, its young branchlets covered with whitish or greyish hairs. The leaves are broadly elliptical to broadly egg-shaped, {{cvt|3–9|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–5|mm}} wide with the edges turned downwards. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to fourteen along a rachis up to {{cvt|30|mm}} long that grows into a leafy shoot after flowering. Each flower is on a pedicel about {{cvt|1–3|mm}} long, usually with a leaf at the base. The tepals are yellow, {{cvt|8–10|mm}} long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from December to February and the fruit is a green drupe with purple stripes.{{Flora of Australia Online | name = Persoonia microphylla R.Br. | id = 44611}}{{cite web |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |title=Persoonia microphylla |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Persoonia%20microphylla |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=22 October 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |title=Persoonia microphylla |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~microphylla |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=22 October 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |last2=Johnson |first2=Lawrence A.S. |title=Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales |journal=Telopea |date=1 March 1991 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=280–281 |doi=10.7751/telopea19914929|doi-access=free }}
Taxonomy
Persoonia microphylla was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in the 1830 supplement to his Prodromus from specimens collected in 1823 near Port Jackson. According to Brown, the type collection was made by "D. Cunningham", but in 1991, Peter Weston and Lawrie Johnson nominated the holotype, collected by Allan Cunningham in April 1824, and stored in the British Museum.{{cite web|title=Persoonia microphylla|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/548001 |publisher=APNI|access-date=22 October 2020}}{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Robert|title=Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae:|date=1830|location=London|page=15|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77294#page/529/mode/1up|access-date=22 October 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
This species of Persoonia grows in heath and forest in eastern New South Wales at altitudes between {{cvt|600 and 1200|m}}, occurring disjunctly near Taralga and in river catchments of the Budawang Range.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Proteales of Australia