Persoonia daphnoides is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in eastern Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with spatula-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers in groups of up to eight on a rachis up to long.
Persoonia daphnoides is a prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has its young branchlets densely covered with light brown hairs. The leaves are spatula-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and twisted through 90°. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to eight along a rachis up to long that usually grows into a leafy shoot after flowering. Each flower is on an erect pedicel long and the tepals are yellow, long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from December to January.[1] [2]
Persoonia daphnoides was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. Brown's description was published in Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.[3] [4]
Cunningham gave the type location as "near the Hunter's River" but Peter H. Weston and Lawrie Johnson consider that Cunningham's label is erroneus.[5]
This geebung grows in woodland and forest near Tenterfield in New South Wales and nearby Stanthorpe in Queensland, at altitudes between .