Persoonia falcata, commonly known as the wild pear, is a shrub native to northern Australia.

[2] The species was first formally described by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in 1810 in his paper, On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae, having been collected at Endeavour River, in what is now north Queensland.

[1] Its species name is the Latin adjective falcata "sickle-shaped", from falx "sickle", and refers to the shape of the leaves.

In 1870, George Bentham published the first infrageneric arrangement of Persoonia in Volume 5 of his landmark Flora Australiensis.

[8] Persoonia falcata ranges across a broad swathe of northern Australia, generally within 300 km (190 mi) of the coastline.