Persoonia micranthera
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| Small-flowered snottygobble | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Persoonia |
| Species: | P. micranthera |
| Binomial name | |
| Persoonia micranthera | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Persoonia micrantha S.J.van Leeuwen, A.P.Br. & S.J.Patrick | |
Persoonia micranthera, commonly known as the small-flowered snottygobble,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-lying to prostrate shrub with branchlets that are hairy when young, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, hairy yellow flowers borne in groups of four to fifteen, and smooth, oval fruit.
Persoonia micranthera is a low-lying to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in) with thin bark and branchlets that are hairy in their first year. The leaves are spatula-shaped to lance-shaped or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) long and 8–30 mm (0.31–1.18 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of four to fifteen along a rachis 10–60 mm (0.39–2.36 in) long on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel 2.5–8 mm (0.098–0.315 in) long. The tepals are yellow, hairy on the outside, 10.5–14 mm (0.41–0.55 in) long. Flowering occurs from February to March and the fruit is a smooth drupe.[3][4][5][6]
Taxonomy
Persoonia micranthera was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected on the summit of Bluff Knoll in 1980.[5][7]