Persoonia nutans
Persoonia nutans, commonly known as the nodding geebung, is a rare shrub native to New South Wales in eastern Australia. It is one of many species first described by Robert Brown.[1] having been collected by him at the base of the Blue Mountains,[2] 'near Richmond and the Nepean River' in 1802. It is an attractive, erect to spreading shrub to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall; it has hairy young branches with narrow leaves, about 30 × 1.5 mm, flat but with recurved margins. The flowers are yellow, pendulous on a delicate stalk to 12 millimetres (0.47 in) long, with 4 free segments curled back from a cylindrical base, occurring from December to March, with some flowers to July; the ovary is glabrous (hairless). Its fruit is a round glabrous drupe enclosing a single seed.[3] The plant appears to favour sandy soils. It is currently listed as an endangered species on Schedule 1 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and as a nationally endangered species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.[4]
| Nodding geebung | |
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| Flowers, Agnes Banks, NSW | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Persoonia |
| Species: | P. nutans |
| Binomial name | |
| Persoonia nutans | |
References
- "Persoonia nutans R.Br". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- Brown, Robert (1810). "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 10 (1): 15–226 [162]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1810.tb00013.x.
- Fairley & Moore, Native Plants of the Sydney region, Jacana, Sydney, 2010
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, NSW Government
