Persoonia coriacea Audas & P.Morris

Erect to spreading shrubs 0.3-2 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves spathulate to obovate to elliptic or narrowly so to linear, 2-7 cm long, 3-13 mm wide, flat, sometimes slightly incurved, spreading to erect, usually falcate, twisted through 90-360°, innocuous, concolorous or with paler margins, usually slightly to strongly glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to moderately scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-10-flowered; rachis 0-7 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2.5-9 mm long, erect, glabrous to moderately hairy; tepals 6.5-11.5 mm long, obtuse to acute to apiculate, glabrous to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

Grows in heath and mallee heath communities, in yellow sand or sandy loam, often over laterite.