Persoonia falcata R.Br.

Erect shrubs or trees 1-9 m tall. Bark lamellose-flakey. Hairs greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets glabrous to densely hairy. Leaves mostly oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 8-35 cm long, mostly 4-30 mm wide, flat, spreading to suberect, falcate, twisted through 90°, innocuous, usually strongly glaucous, glabrous, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 10-80-flowered; rachis 3-20 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 4-15 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous to densely hairy; tepals 10-16 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous to moderately hairy on outside; ventral tepal shallowly saccate. Anthers white; appendage obtuse, 2-4.6 mm long, recurved.

Grows most commonly in Eucalyptus woodland to forest but also found in Melaleuca woodland or mixed woodland or the margins of vine thickets and occasionally in heath, in well-drained substrata, most commonly in sand derived from sandstone or granite, or on dunes, but also in lateritic soils or on stony hillsides and rarely in clay.

The fruit are peeled and eaten raw.

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