Persoonia brachystylis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area on the west coast of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with smooth bark, narrow spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of ten to twenty.
Persoonia brachystylis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of with mottled grey bark and branchlets that are densely hairy when young. The leaves are narrow spatula-shaped to linear or lance-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are cylindrical and arranged in groups of ten to twenty, each flower on a pedicel long. The tepals are bright yellow, long and wide, the anthers white. Flowering occurs from November to December or January and the fruit is a oval drupe long and wide.[1] [2]
Persoonia brachystylis was first formally described in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his book Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Augustus Frederick Oldfield near the Murchison River.[3] [4]
This geebung is restricted to the Kalbarri National Park where it grows in low heath on sandplains, often over laterite.