Persoonia virgata R.Br.

Erect or rarely prostrate shrubs 0.5-4 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs whitish or greyish, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly spathulate, 2-5 cm long, 1-2 (-5.5) mm wide, flat or concave, sometimes slightly incurved, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-75-flowered; rachis 0-23 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 4-9 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous; tepals 9-11 mm long, obtuse to acute, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

It grows in warm temperate regions. They grow on sandy soils over clays and can be in moist soils or dry forest. They need moist but not waterlogged, acid soils.

The ripe fruit is eaten when black or purple.

Plants can be grown from seed or from cuttings of very young growth.