Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Persoonia coriacea
Proteaceae Juss.
Persoonia coriacea Audas & P.Morris , legitimate, scientific
Audas, J.W.C. & Morris, P.F. (1928), A new species of Persoonia from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 15: 81, t. XIII. BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Merredin, on sand plain which had apparently been burned off several years previously, destroying all the old shrubs. Max Koch, No. 3004, 30th November, 1923."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 65 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 479 (map) [secondary reference]
common name: leathery leaf persoonia [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From Latin, coriaceus, leathery, referring to the thick leaves."
Weston, P.H. (18 September 1994), The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae). Telopea 6(1): 99-101, Fig. 16a (map) [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: (here designated): on a sheet with the hand-written label: '3004. Persoonia shrub about 3 ft high as seen on a sandplain which had been burned off apparently several years ago, destroying all the old shrubs Loc: Merredin, W.A Coll: M. Koch 30.XI.1923' (MEL 103666, photo NSW). The specimen on the left-hand side of the sheet is designated lectotype. Isolectotypes: NSW (2 sheets), PERTH.
Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae. Flora of Australia 16: 103, Fig. 41, Map 81 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Hybridises sporadically with P. helix
  • APC Dist.: WA