Persoonia iogyna

Persoonia iogyna is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub or small tree with hairy young branchlets, narrow elliptical to lance-shaped leaves, yellow flowers and green fruit.

Persoonia iogyna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species:
P. iogyna
Binomial name
Persoonia iogyna
P.H.Weston & L.A.S.Johnson[1]
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Description

Persoonia iogyna is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of 1.6–4 m (5 ft 3 in–13 ft 1 in) with smooth bark and hairy young branchlets. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrow elliptical to lance-shaped, 25–110 mm (0.98–4.33 in) long and 6–19 mm (0.24–0.75 in) wide with the edges curved downwards. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to eleven, each flower on a pedicel 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. The tepals are yellow and 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) long. Flowering occurs from December to February and the fruit is a green drupe about 9 mm (0.35 in) long and 4.5 mm (0.18 in) wide.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy

Persoonia iogyna was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston and Lawrie Johnson from material collected near Mount Nebo in 1990.[3][5]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in eucalypt forest at altitudes from 400 to 600 m (1,300 to 2,000 ft) in the Conondale and D'Aguilar Ranges in south-eastern Queensland.[3][4]

Conservation status

Persoonia iogyna is classified as of "least concrn" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[6]

References
  1. "Persoonia iogyna". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  2. "Persoonia iogyna P.H.Weston & L.A.S.Johnson". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
  3. Weston, Peter H. (1994). "The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae)". Telopea. 6 (1): 33–35. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  4. Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia iogyna". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  5. "Prostanthera iogyna". APNI. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  6. "Species profile - Persoonia iogyna". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
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