Persoonia filiformis P.H.Weston

Erect shrubs 7-40 cm tall. Hairs whitish or greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves linear, 1-2 cm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, concave or semiterete, with 6 prominent, parallel veins, suberect to erect, usually straight, pungent, slightly glaucous, glabrous to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth or slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-20-flowered; rachis 0-3 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 1-2 mm long, erect, glabrous; tepals 11-16 mm long, acuminate, glabrous on outside. Anther appendage filiform, 2-4.5 mm long, recurved through 90-180°. Ovary glabrous.

Grows in low heath, in yellow sand, often over laterite.