Common name: Fine-leaf Geebung
Persoonia tenuifolia R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Erect to decumbent shrub, young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy.
Leaves subterete and channelled above, 0.9–2.5 cm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, usually strongly incurved, smooth, glabrous.
Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by full-sized leaves; pedicels 1–3 mm long, spreading to suberect, glabrous. Tepals 8–10 mm long, obtuse or shortly apiculate, glabrous. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in heath or dry sclerophyll forest on acid sand; north from Ramornie, Torrington and Yetman.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
This species apparently hybridizes with P. stradbrokensis, P. cornifolia and P. sericea where it grows with these species.
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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