Persoonia katerae

Persoonia katerae is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae that is endemic to a small area on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect shrub to small tree with smooth bark on the branches, narrow elliptic to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers in groups of six to twenty-two on a rachis long.

Description

Persoonia katerae is an erect shrub to small tree that typically grows to a height of about and has finely fissured bark near the base, smooth bark above. Its young branchlets are covered with greyish hairs. The leaves are narrow elliptical to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with a few hairs mainly on the edges. The flowers are arranged in groups of six to twenty-two along a rachis long that grows into a leafy shoot after flowering. Each flower is on a pedicel about long and the tepals are yellow, long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from January to February and the fruit is a green drupe, sometimes suffused with purple.

Taxonomy

Persoonia katerae was first formally described in 1991 by P.H.Weston & L.A.S.Johnson in the journal Telopea from specimens collected near Boomerang Beach, [New South Wales|Boomerang Beach] in 1988.

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in heath and forest on coastal sand between the Hastings River and Myall Lakes in coastal New South Wales.