Persoonia confertiflora

Erect to decumbent shrub to 1.5 m high; young branches moderately to densely hairy. Leaves alternate or opposite, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or ovate, 3–12 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, flat, mucronate, strongly discolorous, smooth, sparsely hairy when young, glabrescent when mature; margins recurved; apex acute or obtuse. Inflorescence an axillary or apparently terminal raceme (flowering axis c. 3–8 mm long), terminated by a dormant bud; flowers subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1–2 mm long, erect, densely hairy. Tepals 12–14 mm long, apiculate, densely hairy, terminal spine to c. 1 mm long; anthers white; ovary glabrous. Drupe ovoid, to c. 18 mm long, c. 14 mm wide, initially green becoming purplish. Flowers Nov.–Feb.