Soft geebung

Appearance

''Persoonia mollis'' is an erect to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–5 m and has smooth bark and young branchlets that are covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are linerar, oblong to lance-shaped or spatula-shaped, 15–120 mm long, 0.8–17 mm wide and much paler on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to thrity along a rachis up to 150 mm long that grows into a leafy shoot after flowering, each flower on a pedicel about 1–3 mm long, usually with a leaf at the base. The tepals are yellow, 8–11.5 mm long and hairy on the outside. Flowering mostly occurs from late December to May and the fruit is a green drupe about 8 mm long and 7 mm wide.

Distribution

Soft geebung grows from heath to forest, usually on sandstone, from the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury River south to the Clyde River.
⤷  Subspecies ''budawangensis'' grows from woodland to forest and is endemic to the Budawang Range;
⤷  Subspecies ''caleyi'' grows in forest between Jervis Bay and Durras Lake on the South Coast;
⤷  Subspecies ''ledifolia'' occurs between Kangaloon, the Shoalhaven River, Jamberoo amd Wingello where it grows from heath to forest on Hawkesbury Sandstone;
⤷  Subspecies ''leptophylla'' is found between the Shoalhaven River, Budawang Range, Nerriga and Nowra and on the Beecroft Peninsula where it grows in heath and forest on Nowra and Conjola sandstones;
⤷  Subspecies ''livens'' is found between Penrose, Goulburn and Braidwood, growing in woodland on metasedimentary rock and conglomerate;
⤷  Subspecies ''maxima'' grows in forest on Hawkesbury sandstone in the Cowan-Hornsby area;
⤷  Subspecies ''mollis'' is found in forest on sandstone in the Blue Mountains;
⤷  Subspecies ''nectens'' occurs between Oakdale, Hill Top and the Illawarra Escarpment where it grows in forest;
⤷  Subspecies ''revoluta'' grows in forest on Hawkesbury sandstone between Nattai Gorge, Bullio, Berrima and Canyonleigh.

Habitat

Soft geebung grows from heath to forest, usually on sandstone, from the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury River south to the Clyde River.
⤷  Subspecies ''budawangensis'' grows from woodland to forest and is endemic to the Budawang Range;
⤷  Subspecies ''caleyi'' grows in forest between Jervis Bay and Durras Lake on the South Coast;
⤷  Subspecies ''ledifolia'' occurs between Kangaloon, the Shoalhaven River, Jamberoo amd Wingello where it grows from heath to forest on Hawkesbury Sandstone;
⤷  Subspecies ''leptophylla'' is found between the Shoalhaven River, Budawang Range, Nerriga and Nowra and on the Beecroft Peninsula where it grows in heath and forest on Nowra and Conjola sandstones;
⤷  Subspecies ''livens'' is found between Penrose, Goulburn and Braidwood, growing in woodland on metasedimentary rock and conglomerate;
⤷  Subspecies ''maxima'' grows in forest on Hawkesbury sandstone in the Cowan-Hornsby area;
⤷  Subspecies ''mollis'' is found in forest on sandstone in the Blue Mountains;
⤷  Subspecies ''nectens'' occurs between Oakdale, Hill Top and the Illawarra Escarpment where it grows in forest;
⤷  Subspecies ''revoluta'' grows in forest on Hawkesbury sandstone between Nattai Gorge, Bullio, Berrima and Canyonleigh.