Persoonia saccata R.Br.

Erect to spreading shrubs 0.2-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth, sometimes flaky towards base. Hairs greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent or curly. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 5-17 cm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide, flat with recurved to revolute margins to subterete and grooved underneath, usually slightly incurved, spreading to erect, straight, innocuous, sometimes slightly glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 10-90-flowered; rachis 2-45 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3.5-12 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9-14 mm long, acute to acuminate, moderately to densely hairy on outside; ventral tepal deeply saccate. Anthers yellow with white tips; appendage obtuse, 1.2-2.2 mm long, not recurved.

Grows in forest and woodland dominated by Eucalyptus marginata and/or E. calophylla or, less frequently, in Banksia woodland or forest, in white or grey sand or in gravelly soil.

Seeds germinate after passing through the hut of emus. Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.