Common name: Dwarf Geebung
Persoonia chamaepeuce Lhotsky ex Meisn. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate shrub, young branchlets sparsely hairy to glabrous.
Leaves linear, 0.8–2.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, not consistently curved, concave, smooth, usually glabrous.
Inflorescences growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 3–6 mm long, suberect to recurved. Tepals 9–13 mm long, caudate. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest or woodland on various soils but not on those derived from sandstone; eastern tablelands from New England to Vic.
NSW subdivisions: NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
This species occasionally hybridizes with P. asperula where they grow together.
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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