Persoonia brevifolia

Erect shrub to c. 1.8 m high; young branches moderately hairy. Leaves alternate, elliptic to broadly elliptic, ovate or obovate, 1–2.4 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, flat, mucronate, slightly to strongly discolorous, smooth, sparsely hairy when young, glabrescent when mature; margins slightly recurved. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves; pedicels 2–5 mm long, erect or recurved, usually glabrous. Tepals 8–12 mm long, caudate, glabrous to sparsely hairy, terminal spine to c. 1 mm long; ovary glabrous. Drupe ovoid, to c. 12 mm long, c. 9 mm wide. Flowers Dec.–Mar.