Persoonia rudis Meisn.

Erect shrubs 0.2-1 m tall. Hairs greyish to tawny, antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 0.7-1.4 mm wide, concave or semiterete, usually slightly incurved, suberect to erect, usually straight, sharp but not pungent, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately hairy when mature, scabrous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 5-30-flowered; rachis 0.3-10 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2-10 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 8-14 mm long, acuminate, moderately hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 1.5-3 mm long, recurved through 180°. Ovary densely hairy.

Grows in low heath and Eucalyptus calophylla forest, in yellow sand, often over laterite.