Persoonia saundersiana

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

Persoonia saundersiana is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–5 m (1 ft 8 in – 16 ft 5 in) with smooth bark apart from rough, peeling bark near the base, and young branchlets that are covered with greyish hair.

[2][3][4][5] Persoonia saundersiana was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from specimens collected by James Drummond.

[6][7] This geebung grows in scrub and mallee heath in the area between Minnivale, Tammin, Lake Hope and Comet Vale in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.

[3][5] Persoonia saundersiana is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.