''Persoonia bowgada'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with smooth bark, more or less cylindrical leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to ten on the ends of branches.

Description

''Persoonia bowgada'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth, mottled grey bark. The leaves are more or less cylindrical but with six narrow grooves and a sharply pointed tip, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to ten on the ends of branchlets that continue to grow after flowering, each flower on a densely hairy pedicel long. The tepals are yellow, long, wide and densely hairy on the outside, the

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yellow. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is a smooth, narrow elliptic

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, long and wide containing a single seed.

Taxonomy and naming

''Persoonia bowgada'' was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens collected by J.S. Beard north of the Murchison River in 1980. The

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(''bowgada'') is a reference to the bowgada ( ''Acacia ramulosa'' var. ''linophylla'') community in which this species often occurs, and to the species' superficial similarity to the acacia.

Distribution and habitat

This geebung grows in bowgada woodland, euycalypt woodland and mallee heath within of the coast between

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and the Murchison River in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Persoonia bowgada'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18081638 bowgada Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1994 Taxa named by Peter H. Weston