Persoonia cornifolia A.Cunn. ex R.Br.

Erect to spreading shrubs 0.9-6 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to patent. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic to ovate, 2-8 cm long, 10-45 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins (sometimes only slightly so), spreading to suberect, straight, twisted through 0-90°, innocuous, concolorous to slightly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence mostly anauxotelic, mostly 1-4-flowered; rachis mostly 0-5 mm long. Flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1-2 mm long, erect, densely hairy; tepals 10-13 mm long, acute to apiculate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary moderately to densely hairy or rarely glabrous; hairs greyish; ovule 1.

It grows in open woodland and dry forest. It grows on sandy and gravelly soils. It needs well drained acid soil. It suits temperate and subtropical regions. It can grow in the sun or in light shade. It can tolerate frost.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.