Persoonia quinquenervis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
It is an erect, spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets, twisted linear, lance-shaped, narrow oblong or narrow spatula-shaped leaves, and bright yellow flowers borne in groups of up to ten on a rachis up to 60 mm (2.4 in) that continues to grow after flowering.
Persoonia quinquenervis is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–2.5 m (7.9 in – 8 ft 2.4 in) with smooth bark, sometimes rough and peeling near the base and young branchlets that are covered with greyish or whitish hair for the first year or two.
[2][3][4][5] Persoonia quinquenervis was first formally described in 1842 by William Jackson Hooker in his Icones Plantarum from specimens collected in the Swan River Colony by James Drummond.
[6][7] This geebung grows in heath, thicket, woodland and forest in the area between Latham, Boyagin Nature Reserve, Tarin Rock, Frank Hann National Park and Yellowdine in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.