Citation: Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 4:215 (1798).

Derivation: After Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, 1755 -1837, a Dutch writer on fungi.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs or small trees; leaves alternate, rarely almost whorled, simple, entire.

Flowers bisexual, solitary in axils or by suppression or reduction of leaves forming short axillary or terminal racemes; perianth in bud either regular and cylindrical or constricted about the base, or (outside S. Aust.) irregular and saccate on the abaxial side, segments free or nearly so, laminae recurved, scarcely wider than the erect claws; anthers usually all perfect, inserted on short filaments at or below the middle of the perianth-segments, sometimes apiculate by an extension of the connective; hypogynous glands or scales small; ovary stipitate, 2- rarely 1-ovulate; style terminal, either short, inflexed, inserted in the cavity in the abaxial perianth-segment or (S. Aust.) long and filiform; style-end not modified into a pollen-presenter.

Fruit a drape, either 1-celled or obliquely 2-celled, each cell 1-seeded.

Distribution:  About 42 species, restricted to Australia, centred in the south-west and east.

Biology: No text

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