Persoonia sericea A.Cunn. ex R.Br.

Erect to spreading shrubs 0.3-4 m tall. Bark smooth or poorly developed. Hairs silvery or greyish to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves obovate to linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate to narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic to narrowly spathulate to spathulate, 2-6 cm long, 2-21 mm wide, flat or flat with recurved margins, sometimes incurved, spreading to suberect, straight to falcate, twisted at base through 0-90°, innocuous, concolorous to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, sparsely to densely so when mature, smooth to strongly scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-23-flowered; rachis 0-25 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2-12 mm long, erect to recurved, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9-11 mm long, acute to apiculate to caudate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary densely hairy; hairs greyish to tawny; ovules 2.

Grows in woodland to dry sclerophyll forest, in well-drained soils derived from a variety of parent materials including granite, sandstone, metasediments and acid volcanics, from near sea level to 1200 m alt.