Persoonia volcanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped to oblong leaves, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to that usually continues to grow after flowering, each flower with a leaf at its base.
Persoonia volcanica is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth bark, and branchlets that are covered with greyish to rust-coloured hairs when young. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to twenty along a rachis up to long that continues to grow after flowering, each flower on a pedicel long, usually with a leaf at its base. The tepals are yellow and long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to February and the fruit is a green drupe.[1] [2] [3]
Persoonia volcanica was first formally described in 1991 by Peter H. Weston and Lawrie Johnson from a specimen collected near Woodenbong in 1989 and the description was published in Telopea.[4] The specific epithet (volcanica) is a reference to the substrate on which this species usually grows.
This geebung grows in forest and the margins of rainforest on the McPherson Range on the New South Wales-Queensland border and disjunctly in Kroombit Tops National Park further north.