Persoonia marginata A.Cunn. ex R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Spreading to decumbent shrub, young branchlets moderately to densely hairy.
Leaves elliptic to broad-elliptic or obovate, 2–4 cm long, 6–23 mm wide, flat, sparsely hairy when young, glabrescent when mature, smooth to slightly scabrous.
Inflorescences terminated by a dormant bud or growing on into a leafy shoot; flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 2–7 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately hairy. Tepals 8–10 mm long, caudate, sparsely hairy. Ovary densely hairy.
Distribution and occurrence: in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone; restricted to the Capertee district.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: P.H. Weston (1995)
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