Persoonia juniperina
Persoonia juniperina, commonly known as prickly geebung, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small erect to low-lying shrub with smooth bark, hairy new branches, linear leaves, yellow flowers borne singly or in groups of up to forty in leaf axils, and yellowish green to purplish fruit.
Description
Persoonia juniperina is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of with smooth bark and hairy young branchlets. The leaves are linear, long and wide. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to forty on a rachis up to long that grows into a leafy shoot after flowering, each flower on a hairy pedicel long. The tepals are yellow, sometimes hairy on the outside, long with yellow anthers. Flowering occurs from December to February and the fruit is an oval, yellowish green to purplish drupe about long and wide.Taxonomy
Persoonia juniperina was first formally described in 1805 by French naturalist Jacques Labillardière in his book Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen from specimens collected in Tasmania.Four varieties of P. juniperina are accepted by the Australian [Plant Census] as at October 2020:
- Persoonia juniperina var. brevifolia Meisn.;
- Persoonia juniperina Labill. var. juniperina;
- Persoonia juniperina var. mollis Orchard;
- Persoonia juniperina var. ulicina Meisn.