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Persoonia amaliae
Persoonia amaliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with hairy young branches, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to eleven.
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Description
Persoonia amaliae is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 2–8 m (6 ft 7 in – 26 ft 3 in) and has fissured bark near the base and smooth bark above. Young branchlets and leaves have greyish to light brown hairs. The leaves are spatula-shaped or narrow elliptic to lance-shaped, 30–80 mm (1.2–3.1 in) long and 6–18 mm (0.24–0.71 in) wide. The flowers are borne in groups of up to eleven on stalks up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long on branches that continue to grow after flowering. Each flower is on a hairy pedicel 3–9 mm (0.12–0.35 in) long, the tepals yellow and 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) long. Flowering occurs from January to July.
Range & habitat
This persoonia grows in forest on near-coastal ranges at altitudes of 150 to 700 m (490 to 2,300 ft), mainly between Eungella and Biggenden.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 895188.