Persoonia conjuncta P.H.Weston & L.A.S.Johnson APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub to small tree, young branchlets moderately hairy.
Leaves narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 6–14 cm long, 10–26 mm wide, flat, with ± recurved margins, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature (but much denser on margins), glabrescent when mature, smooth.
Inflorescences usually growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 2–6 mm long, erect, sparsely to densely hairy. Tepals 12–13 mm long, acuminate to shortly caudate, sparsely to moderately hairy. Ovary moderately hairy.
Distribution and occurrence: in dry to wet sclerophyll forest of coastal ranges; from the Coffs Harbour district to the Manning R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
This species intergrades extensively with P. stradbrokensis near the coast and with P. media in the coastal ranges; it also hybridizes with P. linearis where they grow together.
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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