Mountain geebung | |
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Persoonia asperula in Wadbilliga National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Genus: | Persoonia |
Species: | P. asperula
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Binomial name | |
Persoonia asperula L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston[1]
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Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Synonyms | |
Persoonia nutans subsp. g sensu Jacobs & Pickard[2] |
Persoonia asperula, commonly known as mountain geebung, is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or prostrate shrub with smooth bark, mostly elliptic to oblong leaves and yellow flowers borne singly or in groups of up to nine. It mostly occurs in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. A small population in Victoria may be a different species.