Persoonia stradbrokensis

Persoonia stradbrokensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

It is an erect shrub or tree with hairy young branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to 100 mm (3.9 in), each flower with a leaf or scale leaf at its base.

Persoonia stradbrokensis is an erect shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 1–6 m (3 ft 3 in – 19 ft 8 in) with smooth bark above, rough bark on the lower trunk, and branchlets that are covered with greyish to light brown hairs when young.

[2][3] Persoonia stradbrokensis was first formally described in 1921 by Karel Domin in Bibliotheca Botanica from specimens he collected on Stradbroke Island in 1910.

[4][5] This geebung grows from coastal heath to forest in near-coastal areas of Australia between Tin Can Bay in south-eastern Queensland and the Hastings River in north-eastern New South Wales.