Persoonia

Also known as geebung, snottygobble

Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderProteales
FamilyProteaceae

Observations recorded117,709

Die Persoonia sind eine Pflanzengattung innerhalb der Familie der Silberbaumgewächse (Proteaceae). Die 95 bis 101 Arten kommen nur auf Australien vor, dort aber in den meisten Bundesstaaten.

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 481
With media: 188
Family: Proteaceae
Collections: MEL, IBUNAM, RSA
Recorded in: Australia, Mexico, Malaysia

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Persoonia, commonly known as geebungs or snottygobbles, is a genus of about one hundred species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Plants in the genus Persoonia are shrubs or small trees usually with smooth bark, simple leaves and usually yellow flowers arranged along a raceme, each flower with a leaf or scale leaf at the base. The fruit is a drupe.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Persoonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.