Common name: Hairy Geebung
Persoonia hirsuta Pers. APNI* Description: Spreading to decumbent shrub, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.
Leaves linear to narrow-oblong or elliptic or lanceolate or narrow-spathulate to spathulate, 0.5–1.4 cm long, 0.75–4 mm wide, convex and recurved, with recurved to revolute margins, moderately to densely hairy when young, glabrescent to moderately so when mature, scabrous.
Inflorescences growing on into leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, erect or spreading, moderately to densely hairy. Tepals c. 10 mm long, acute, moderately to densely hairy. Ovary hairy.
Flowering: Flowers chiefly November to January
Distribution and occurrence: From Putty to Hill Top and to coastal districts. Grows in woodland to dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone, on ranges.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
Both subspecies occurring as isolated individuals or in very small populations. The subspecies intergrade extensively from the lower Blue Mountains to within 15 km of the coast.
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Leaves linear to narrow-oblong, 0.75–1.5 mm wide, with revolute margins | subsp. hirsuta |
| Leaves spathulate to elliptic or narrowly so, 1.5–5 mm wide, with recurved margins | subsp. evoluta |
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