Persoonia laurina Pers.

Erect to decumbent shrubs 0.2-2 m tall. Hairs greyish to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets densely hairy. Leaves opposite-decussate, elliptic to ovate to oblong to narrowly oblong, 3.5-11 cm long, 10-60 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, sometimes slightly incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth or moderately scabrous. Inflorescence anauxotelic. Flowers subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 0-2 mm long, erect, densely hairy; tepals 12-15 mm long, obtuse to acute, densely hairy. Ovary glabrous or densely hairy on outside.

Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland and forest, usually in sandy to stony soils derived from sandstone, or occasionally in sandy alluvium or granite or metasediments, from sea level to 1200 m alt.

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