Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Persoonia oxycoccoides
Gazetted date:
27 May 2022
Profile last updated:
29 Feb 2024
Description
A prostrate to spreading shrub, young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves narrow- to broad-elliptic to ovate, 0.4–1.1 cm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, ? discolorous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely so when mature, smooth to slightly scabrous; venation obscure. Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by reduced leaves or leaves; pedicels 2–5 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous or rarely very sparsely hairy. Tepals 8–11 mm long, acute to apiculate, glabrous. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution
Persoonia oxycoccoides is endemic to New South Wales where it is currently known from the Wingecarribee Shire in the south-eastern portion of the Central Tablelands, with the easternmost records in the municipality of Kiama, and a south-western outlier at Tallong in Goulburn-Mulwaree Shire in the Southern Tablelands. The historical northern limit of distribution is Colo Vale; the eastern limit is Budderoo National Park and environs (between Jamberoo and Robertson); and the southern and western limits are Tallong. It is known from Budderoo and Morton National Parks, Upper Nepean State Conservation Area and Stingray Swamp Flora Reserve.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Habitat loss and fragmentation due to land clearing for agriculture, plantation forestry, friable sandstone mining, infrastructure, and urban settlement reducing the population size.
- Isolated small populations with low genetic diversity and inbreeding potentially limiting recruitment, long-term viability and increasing risk of extinction.
- Decreased visitation rates of native pollinators due to habitat fragmentation reducing fruit production and causing seedbank decay. Visitation of European honeybees also dominates increasing hybridisation.
- Localised slashing and herbicide use, road and track maintenance, recreational vehicle use, rubbish dumping.
- High fire frequency limits seedling recruitment and increases adult plant mortality. A relatively long absence of fire causes plant mortality through competition with other dominant shrubs.
- Weed invasion, competition, and suppression of recruitment due to the species’ tendency to occur on disturbance margins.
Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
0 priority actions
to help recover the Persoonia oxycoccoides in New South Wales.
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