Persoonia volcanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped to oblong leaves, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to 180 mm (7.1 in) that usually continues to grow after flowering, each flower with a leaf at its base.

Persoonia volcanica
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species:
P. volcanica
Binomial name
Persoonia volcanica

Description

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Persoonia volcanica is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.8–6 m (5 ft 11 in – 19 ft 8 in) and has smooth bark, and branchlets that are covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs when young. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong, 20–90 mm (0.79–3.54 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to twenty along a rachis up to 180 mm (7.1 in) long that continues to grow after flowering, each flower on a pedicel 1.5–10 mm (0.059–0.394 in) long, usually with a leaf at its base. The tepals are yellow and 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to February and the fruit is a green drupe.[2][3][4][5]

Taxonomy and naming

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Persoonia volcanica was first formally described in 1991 by Peter H. Weston and Lawrie Johnson from a specimen collected near Woodenbong in 1989 and the description was published in Telopea.[4][6] The specific epithet (volcanica) is a reference to the substrate on which this species usually grows.[4]

Distribution and habitat

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This geebung grows in forest and the margins of rainforest on the McPherson Range on the New South Wales-Queensland border and disjunctly in Kroombit Tops National Park further north.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Persoonia volcanica". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Persoonia volcanica L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
  3. ^ a b Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia volcanica". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Weston, Peter H.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (1 March 1991). "Taxonomic changes in Persoonia (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea. 4 (2): 299–300. doi:10.7751/telopea19914929.
  5. ^ Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia volcanica". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Persoonia volcanica". APNI. Retrieved 14 November 2020.