Persoonia mollis subsp. leptophylla S.L.Krauss & L.A.S.Johnson APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub 0.5–1.5 m tall. Hairs c. 0.7 mm long on leaves, 0.3–1 mm long on tepals, whitish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy.
Leaves linear, 1.5–4 cm long, 0.8–2 mm wide, convex, with revolute margins that wholly or partly obscure the undersurface, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy on undersurface when immature, usually retaining hairs when mature.
Tepals sparsely hairy on outside.
Flowering: Flowers chiefly December – May.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll forest on Nowra and Conjola Sandstones, from sea level to 800 m alt. Occurs in an area bounded by the Shoalhaven River, the Budawang Range, Nerriga and Nowra and disjunctly on the Beecroft Peninsula, Jervis Bay.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, ST
Persoonia mollis subsp. leptophylla hybridises sporadically with P. linearis where they grow together.
Text by P.H. Weston; (edited: A.Orme, July 2025, Fl.Aust.)
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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