Persoonia terminalis L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston APNI* Description: Erect to spreading shrub, young branchlets sparsely hairy.
Leaves oblong, 0.35–1.0 cm long, 1.2–2.0 mm wide, convex, with recurved margins, ± recurved, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent when mature, smooth or slightly finely scabrous.
Inflorescences usually terminated by a dormant bud; flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1–2 mm long, erect to spreading, sparsely to moderately hairy. Tepals 9–13 mm long, obtuse or apiculate, sparsely hairy. Ovary glabrous.
Distribution and occurrence: in dry sclerophyll forest; north from Warialda.
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld
This species occasionally hybridizes with P. cornifolia and P. sericea when it grows with these species.
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Leaves slightly recurved towards the tip; longest leaves 0.8–1.0 cm long | subsp. terminalis |
| 1 | Leaves strongly recurved towards the tip; longest leaves 0.6–0.75 cm long | subsp. recurva |
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