Persoonia volcanica P.H.Weston & L.A.S.Johnson APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub, young branchlets moderately hairy.
Leaves linear to narrow-oblong to elliptic or lanceolate, 4–9 cm long, mostly 5–10 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, sparsely so when mature, smooth to slightly scabrous.
Inflorescences usually growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 1.5–8 mm long, erect, moderately hairy. Tepals 9–13 mm long, shortly caudate, moderately hairy. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in dry sclerophyll forest to rainforest on volcanic substrates and metasediments; Border Ranges from Wilsons Peak to Levers Plateau.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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