Persoonia graminea is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to weak, low-lying shrub with long, linear leaves and flowers in groups of ten to twenty-five on a rachis up to long.
Persoonia graminea is an erect to weak, low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of, with its young branchlets covered with greyish hairs. The leaves are linear, long and wide, usually in small groups at the end of each year's growth. The flowers are arranged in groups of ten to twenty-five along a rachis up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The tepals are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, bright yellow to green, long with bright yellow to green anthers. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a drupe long and wide containing a single seed.[1] [2]
Persoonia graminea was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London from specimens he collected at King George Sound in December 1801.[3] [4]
This geebung is found on poorly-drained or loamy soils in swamps, heath, woodland and forest within of the coast between Margaret River and Albany.
Persoonia graminea is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.