Persoonia amaliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with hairy young branches, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to eleven.
Persoonia amaliae is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of and has fissured bark near the base and smooth bark above. Young branchlets and leaves have greyish to light brown hairs. The leaves are spatula-shaped or narrow elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are borne in groups of up to eleven on stalks up to long on branches that continue to grow after flowering. Each flower is on a hairy pedicel long, the tepals yellow and long. Flowering occurs from January to July.[1]
Persoonia amaliae was first formally described in 1921 by Karel Domin in Bibliotheca Botanica from specimens collected by Amalie Dietrich.[2]
This persoonia grows in forest on near-coastal ranges at altitudes of, mainly between Eungella and Biggenden.
Persoonia amaliae is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[3]