FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE North Rothbury for the

North Rothbury Persoonia (Persoonia pauciflora)

The of North Rothbury Persoonia are often strikingly bright green or lime in comparison to the surrounding vegetation.

Habitat Published by: Office of Environment and Heritage, Most native vegetation within the North Rothbury Department of Premier and Cabinet 59 Goulburn Street, Sydney provides important habitat for this Persoonia. PO Box A290 Sydney South 1232 Photo: G. Patrick . Ph: (02) 9995 5000 (switchboard) • The North Rothbury Persoonia may not Ph: 131 555 (environment information and publications requests) The North Rothbury Persoonia grows along road always be apparent above ground. Ph: 1300 361 967 (national parks, climate change and energy verges and in private properties on the North Rothbury efficiency information and publications requests) The seed can survive in the soil for many Fax: (02) 9995 5999 area. This critically endangered is threatened by • TTY: (02) 9211 4723 years. accidental damage during land management activities Email: [email protected] such as mowing, slashing or grading. This guide has been prepared to assist in the identification of Website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au Report pollution and environmental incidents the North Rothbury Persoonia. Environment Line: 131 555 (NSW only) or For additional information regarding Persoonia pauciflora see: [email protected] www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au or See also www.environment.nsw.gov.au/pollution OEH 2011/0690 contact the coordinator of the Persoonia pauciflora Recovery June 2011 Program on (02) 4908 6800 Critically Endangered1 Bark Two other Persoonia species grow in the same North Rothbury Persoonia habitat as the North Rothbury Persoonia: and . The • Grows only within a small area near North North Rothbury Persoonia can be easily Rothbury within the Cessnock City Council distinguished by it’s bark: Local Government Area. Bark: • Only around 350 are known to remain. North Rothbury Smooth and grey. Can

• Most on private property or along road Persoonia . Persoonia be slightly fissured at linearis verges. base in older plants.

1 Other local Flaky paper-like, North Rothbury Persoonia (Persoonia pauciflora) is Persoonia’s particularly at base of listed as a critically endangered species on Schedule stem. Brown-reddish. 1A of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act

1995 (TSC Act) and as a critically endangered species Photos: A. Richardson under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and North Rothbury Persoonia bark is smooth and grey Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

Flowers Fruit Habit • small and yellow • fleshy light green to yellow drupe • small spreading shrub typically 0.4 -1.4 m in • four petals • contains a seed roughly the size and shape of a height • located towards the end of branches coffee bean • the leaves are soft, narrow (<1 mm) needle-like, 3 - 4 cm long