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

Decumbent or prostrate shrubs. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets sparsely hairy. Leaves linear, 8-15 mm long, 1-1.8 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, straight, innocuous, slightly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-3-flowered; rachis 0-0.5 mm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 6-8 mm long, spreading to recurved, glabrous; tepals 8-9 mm long, apiculate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

Presumably grows in heath or dry sclerophyll eucalypt woodland or forest on sandstone or in coastal sand.