Persoonia oleoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers in groups of up to twenty-five on a rachis up to long.
Persoonia oleoides is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth bark with young branchlets covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblong to elliptical, egg-shaped or spatula-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, sometimes on a rachis with a dormant bud on the end, sometimes on a rachis that continues to grow into a leafy branch. In the first case, there are up to three flowers on a rachis up to long. In the case of a rachis that grows into a leafy shoot, there are up to twenty-five flowers on a rachis up to long. Each flower is on a pedicel long, the tepals are yellow, hairy and long. Flowering occurs from January to February and the fruit is a green drupe, sometimes with purple stripes.[1] [2] [3]
Persoonia oleoides was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Peter Weston in the journal Telopea.[4]
This geebung grows in forest between the upper Clarence River, the upper Macleay River and Barrington Tops in eastern New South Wales.