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

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order ...

. It is the only species in the genus ''Acidonia''. It is endemic to the south coast of the

Southwest Botanic Province Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Au ...

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to t ...

. It was originally published by Robert Brown in 1810 as a species of '' Persoonia''. In 1975,

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948� ...

and Barbara G. Briggs 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 '' Persoonia'',Holmes, G. D., Weston, P. H., Murphy, D. J., Connelly, C., & Cantrill, D. J. (2018). The genealogy of geebungs: phylogenetic analysis of Persoonia (Proteaceae) and related genera in subfamily Persoonioideae. Australian Systematic Botany, 31(2), 166–189. where it was once included

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* Proteaceae Proteales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Monotypic Proteaceae genera Taxa named by Barbara G. Briggs Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Endemic flora of Southwest Australia {{WesternAustralia-plant-stub