Persoonia oleoides
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Persooniia oleioides.jpg
|genus = Persoonia
|species = oleoides
|authority = L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston{{cite web|title=Persoonia oleoides|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/118795|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=28 October 2020}}
|synonyms = Persoonia oxycoccoides var. longifolia Benth.
}}
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Persoonia oleoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to twenty-five on a rachis up to {{cvt|130|mm}} long.
Description
Persoonia oleoides is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.2–1|m}} and has smooth bark with young branchlets covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblong to elliptical, egg-shaped or spatula-shaped, {{cvt|20–60|mm}} long and {{cvt|4–15|mm}} wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, sometimes on a rachis with a dormant bud on the end, sometimes on a rachis that continues to grow into a leafy branch. In the first case, there are up to three flowers on a rachis up to {{cvt|10|mm}} long. In the case of a rachis that grows into a leafy shoot, there are up to twenty-five flowers on a rachis up to {{cvt|130|mm}} long. Each flower is on a pedicel {{cvt|1–3|mm}} long, the tepals are yellow, hairy and {{cvt|10–15|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from January to February and the fruit is a green drupe, sometimes with purple stripes.{{Flora of Australia Online | name = Persoonia oleoides L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston| id = 44622}}{{cite web|last1=Weston|first1=Peter|title=Persoonia oleoides|url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~oleoides|publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney|access-date=28 October 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |title=Persoonia oleioides |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Persoonia%20oleoides |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=28 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=296–297 |doi=10.7751/telopea19914929|doi-access=free }}
Taxonomy
Persoonia oleoides was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Peter Weston in the journal Telopea.{{cite web|title=Persoonia oleoides|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/552971 |publisher=APNI|access-date=27 October 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
This geebung grows in forest between the upper Clarence River, the upper Macleay River and Barrington Tops in eastern New South Wales.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Plants described in 1991