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Banksia nutans R.Br. var. nutans
Nodding Banksia

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1.3 m high. Fl. pink-purple/purple-brown, Nov to Dec or Jan to Feb. White or grey sand, sometimes over gravel. Coastal consolidated dunes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 31 July 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.40-1 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 8-25 mm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; petiole 1-3 mm long; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow, pink or brown; innermost bracts 3-4 mm long, hairy. Perianth 22-25 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 26-30 mm long, hooked, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, elliptic or oblong, 18-40 mm long. Flowers in January, February, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.