Persoonia rufiflora Meisn.

Erect to spreading shrubs 0.5-2.5 m tall. Hairs greyish to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves oblanceolate to linear, 2-4.5 cm long, 0.7-8 mm wide, flat to convex or subterete, with recurved to revolute margins, with 3 prominent, parallel veins on upper surface, often slightly incurved, suberect to erect, straight, innocuous or sharp but not pungent, concolorous, sometimes glaucous underneath, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to moderately scabrous. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered. Pedicels obsolete. Tepals 6.5-10 mm long, acute, densely hairy on outside. Anther appendage 0.2-0.4 mm long.

Grows in heath, mallee heath and mallee woodland, in sand or laterite.