Persoonia chapmaniana

Persoonia chapmaniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with smooth, compact bark, linear leaves with a sharp point on the tip and yellow flowers borne in groups of five to thirty along a rachis up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long.

Persoonia chapmaniana

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Persoonia
Species:
P. chapmaniana
Binomial name
Persoonia chapmaniana
P.H.Weston[1]
Occurrence data downloaded from AVH

Description

Persoonia chapmaniana is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) with smooth, mottled grey bark and densely hairy branchlets. The leaves are linear, 20–80 mm (0.79–3.15 in) long and 0.9–1.3 mm (0.035–0.051 in) wide with a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are arranged along a rachis 15–60 mm (0.59–2.36 in) long, each flower on a pedicel up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long. The tepals are yellow, 5.5–11.5 mm (0.22–0.45 in) long and glabrous on the outside. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a warty drupe 7.5–12 mm (0.30–0.47 in) long and 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide.[2][3][4][5]

Taxonomy and naming

Persoonia chapmaniana was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston in the journal Telopea from specimens collected by Charles Chapman of Coorow, near the road between Carnamah and Eneabba in 1981. The specific epithet (chapmaniana) honours the collector of the type specimens.[4][6]

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in woodland near salt lakes between the type location, Coomberdale, Lake Ninan (near Wongan Hills) and Kulja in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions.[3][5]

Conservation status

Persoonia chapmaniana is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[5] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[7]

References
  1. "Persoonia chapmaniana". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. "Persoonia chapmaniana P.H.Weston". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
  3. Weston, Peter H. "Persoonia chapmaniana". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. Weston, Peter H. (1994). "The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae)". Telopea. 6 (1): 117–119. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. "Persoonia chapmaniana". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  6. "Persoonia chapmaniana". APNI. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  7. "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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