Petrophile pedunculata
Petrophile pedunculata, commonly known as conesticks, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It has divided leaves with needle-shaped pinnae and oval heads of sparsely hairy yellow or cream-coloured flowers, the heads on a peduncle long. Description Petrophile pedunculata is an erect, spindly to bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has glabrous branchlets and leaves. The leaves are pinnate, needle-shaped but not sharply-pointed, long on a petiole long, with pinnae usually less than long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in oval heads long on a peduncle long. The flowers are about long, yellow or cream-coloured with a few soft hairs. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a nut, fused with others in an oval head up to long on a peduncle about long. This petrophile can be distinguished from the related P. pulchella which has flowers heads that are sessile or on peduncles up to long. Taxonomy Petrophile pedunculata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London from material collected near Port Jackson. Distribution and habitat Petrophile pedunculata