Персонея мелкоцветковая (Persoonia micranthera)

Species of flowering plant
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|name = Small flowered snottygobble
|status = EN
|status system = EPBC
|genus = Persoonia
|species = micranthera
|authority = P. H. Weston
|synonyms ref = is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south west of Western Australia. It is a low lying to prostrate shrub with branchlets that are hairy when young, spatula shaped to lance shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, hairy yellow flowers borne in groups of four to fifteen, and smooth, oval fruit.

Persoonia micranthera is a low lying to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of with thin bark and branchlets that are hairy in their first year. The leaves are spatula shaped to lance shaped or egg shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of four to fifteen along a rachis long on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The tepals are yellow, hairy on the outside, long. Flowering occurs from February to March and the fruit is a smooth drupe.

Persoonia micranthera was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected on the summit of Bluff Knoll in 1980.

Small flowered snottygobble grows as an understorey shrub in thicket vegetation at high altitudes on peaks in the eastern Stirling Range. The main threats to the species include Phytophthora cinnamomi causing dieback, inappropriate fire regimes, trampling and grazing by local fauna.