Persoonia cordifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, rounded to spreading shrub with smooth, mottled grey bark, broadly heart-shaped leaves and bright yellow flowers borne in groups of two to eight along a rachis up to long.
Persoonia cordifolia is an erect, rounded to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of with many stems arising from the base and has smooth, mottled grey bark. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, broadly heart-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to eight along a rachis up to long that grows into a leafy shoot after flowering, each flower on a pedicel long. The tepals are bright yellow, about long with bright yellow anthers. Flowering occurs from December to January.[1] [2]
Persoonia cordifolia was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Weston in the journal Telopea from specimens collected by William R. Archer near Mount Heywood, north-east of Esperance in 1991.[3]
This geebung is only known from the type location and one other away, where it grows in heath in the south of Western Australia.