Persoonia striata R.Br.

Erect to spreading shrubs 15-70 cm tall. Hairs greyish or whitish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear to linear-spathulate, 1-4.5 cm long, 0.7-2.7 mm wide, flat or compressed or semiterete, usually with 3 prominent, parallel veins on both surfaces, often slightly incurved, suberect to erect, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence mostly auxotelic, 1-5-flowered; rachis 0-2 mm long. Flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 2.5-9 mm long, erect, glabrous to sparsely hairy; tepals 8.5-12.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 1.4-2.8 mm long, recurved through 90-180°. Ovary glabrous.

Usually grows in low heath or mallee heath, in sand or loam to clay, often over laterite or gravel.