Persoonia silvatica L.A.S.Johnson

Erect to spreading shrubs or trees 1.5-9 m tall. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves mostly alternate, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate to narrowly spathulate to oblanceolate, 3-12 cm long, 6-25 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, sometimes slightly incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic. Flowers subtended by scale leaves or leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect, glabrous to moderately hairy; tepals 12-14 mm long, acute to caudate, glabrous to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous.

Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland to wet sclerophyll forest on a variety of substrata but most commonly on granite, from 500 to 1360 m alt.