Persoonia prostrata

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Species of flowering plant

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::summary Species of flowering plant ::

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|genus = Persoonia |species = prostrata |authority = R.Br. |extinct = yes |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = Linkia prostrata (R.Br.) Kuntze

Persoonia prostrata is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the northern tip of K'gari in Queensland, but is presumed to be extinct. It is similar to Persoonia stradbrokensis but is a prostrate shrub with smaller leaves and flowers.

Description

Persoonia prostrata is a prostrate shrub with elliptic to spatula-shaped leaves 23–50 mm long and 12–24 mm wide. The flowers are arranged along a rachis up to 6 mm long, that continues to grow after flowering, each flower with a scale leaf at its base. The tepals are about 10 mm long. The species is only known from two collections and may be of a prostrate form of P. stradbrokensis, although that species has not been found on K'gari.

Taxonomy

Persoonia prostrata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London from specimens he collected near the coast of Sandy Cape in 1802.

Distribution and habitat

This geebung is only known from the Brown's type collection and another collected near the end of the 19th century, both from Sandy Cape on Fraser Island, where it grew on sand dunes in heath, woodland or forest.

Conservation status

Persoonia prostrata is classified as "extinct" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and as "extinct in the wild" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.

References

References

  1. ((Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities)). (6 December 2010). "Persoonia prostrata - SPRAT profile". Commonwealth of Australia.
  2. "''Persoonia prostrata''". Australian Plant Census.
  3. {{Flora of Australia Online
  4. "''Persoonia prostrata''". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra.
  5. (1 March 1991). "Taxonomic changes in ''Persoonia'' (Proteaceae) in New South Wales". Telopea.
  6. "''Persoonia prostrata''". APNI.
  7. (1810). "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu.". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.
  8. "Species profile—''Persoonia prostrata''". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science.

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