''Acidonia microcarpa'' is a species of shrub in the plant family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family (biology), family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genus, genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentr ...

, and is the only species in the genus ''Acidonia''. It is endemic to the south coast of the Southwest Botanic Province of

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Description

This is a smooth-barked shrub reaching up to in height. Small branches are hairy and ribbed, the leaves are long and narrow, measuring up to long and just wide. The flowers are bright yellow and about long.

Taxonomy

It was originally published by

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in 1810 as a species of ''

Persoonia ''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 lea ...

''. In 1975,

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic botany, botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional car ...

and

Barbara G. Briggs Barbara Gillian Briggs (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The '' IK'' lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of th1998 APG ...

erected the genus ''Acidonia'', transferring a great many ''Persoonia'' species into it. Later, the circumscription of ''Acidonia'' was changed to include only ''A. microcarpa''. However, phylogenetic studies indicate that ''Acidonia'' is nested in the larger genus ''

'', where it was once included.

Distribution and habitat

''Acidonia microcarpa'' occurs the in the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, from

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to Albany and within of the coast. It grows on sandy soils on the margins of water bodies and swamps.

References

External links

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