Persoonia cuspidifera L.A.S.Johnson & P.H.Weston

Erect shrubs 0.3-2 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves narrowly to broadly spathulate, 10-20 mm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, convex, slightly to strongly incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, strongly scabrous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-25-flowered; rachis 0-7 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 2-5 mm long, erect, moderately hairy; tepals 8-12 mm long, apiculate, moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.

Grows in heathy and scrubby understorey of dry sclerophyll communities on sandstone, from 300 to 650 m alt.