Persoonia comata

Kuntze Persoonia comata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

It is an erect, sometimes spreading to low-lying shrub with mostly smooth bark, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow flowers usually in groups of ten to fifty along a rachis up to 250 mm (9.8 in) long.

Persoonia comata is an erect, sometimes spreading to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1.5 m (7.9 in – 4 ft 11.1 in) with smooth grey bark, sometimes flaky near the base and branchlets that are densely hairy when young but become glabrous with age.

[2][3][4][5] Persoonia comata was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany.

[6][7] This geebung grows in Eucalyptus and Banksia forest and woodland or heath, in near-coastal areas between Mount Peron near Jurien Bay and Yanchep in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions.