Persoonia rufiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, sometimes spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets, lance-shaped to linear leaves, and hairy, greenish yellow flowers arranged singly or in pairs.
Persoonia rufiflora is an erect, sometimes spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of with young branchlets that are covered with greyish to rust-coloured hair. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to linear, long and wide with three ridges on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs, with a scale leaf at the base. The tepals are greenish yellow, long, hairy on the outside, and the anthers are white. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit is a smooth, kidney-shaped to oval drupe about long and wide.[1] [2]
Persoonia rufiflora was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from specimens collected by James Drummond.[3] [4]
This geebung grows in heath and mallee woodland between Kalbarri National Park and the Mogumber area in the south-west of Western Australia.
Persoonia rufiflora is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.