Persoonia bowgada P.H.Weston

Erect to spreading shrubs 1-3.5 m tall. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 5-11 cm long, 0.7-1.3 mm wide, ±terete, with 6 prominent, parallel veins, often slightly incurved, suberect to erect, straight to slightly falcate, twisted through 0-180°, pungent, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-10-flowered; rachis 0-4 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2.5-7 mm long, erect, densely hairy; tepals 11-15.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Anther appendage acute, 1-2 mm long, recurved through 180°. Ovary densely hairy.

Most frequent in Acacia woodland but also found in Eucalyptus woodland and mallee heath, usually in red sand or sandy loam but also found in yellow sand.