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Persoonia rufa

Persoonia rufa
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Persoonia rufa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets, elliptic leaves, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twelve on a rachis up to 110 mm (4.3 in), each flower with a leaf at its base.

Where it grows

This geebung is restricted to the Gibraltar Range National Park where it grows in eucalypt forest on soils derived from granite.

Other Persoonia plants

Needle Geebung · Persoonia acicularis · Persoonia acuminata · Persoonia adenantha · Persoonia amaliae · Persoonia angustiflora · The Tree Geebung · Geebung · Persoonia baeckeoides · Bargo Geebung · Persoonia biglandulosa · Persoonia bowgada

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Persoonia rufa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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