Phebalium bifidum P.H.Weston & M.J.Turton APNI* Synonyms: Phebalium sp. 'Capertee' (NSW481881) APNI*
Description: Shrub to 1.5 m high; stems not glandular-verrucose, with ± silvery to rusty lepidote.
Leaves Y-shaped and bilobed, or rarely cuneate and not strongly lobed, to 1.4 cm long, 0.2–0.6 mm wide at distal end, margins recurved to tightly revolute, upper surface sparsely lepidote and becoming ± glabrous, slightly verrucose, lower surface lepidote but often obscured by the revolute margins.
Inflorescences 2–11-flowered, sessile; pedicels slender, 2.5–7.5 mm long. Calyx cupulate, smooth, densely lepidote. Petals 3–3.5 mm long, silvery lepidote outside, cream to bright yellow inside.
Cocci erect to slightly spreading, 3–4 mm long, outer angle shortly beaked.
Flowering: Spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Known from the Capertee Valley. Found in sclerophyll woodland and heath on sandstone.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Text by Marco Duretto.
Taxon concept: Weston & Turton (2004) Telopea 10: 787-792.
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