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Banksia gardneri var. brevidentata A.S.George

Reference
Nuytsia 3:372 (1981)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate shrub, ca 0.2 m high, leaves deep green above, shortly dentate (teeth 2-5 mm long). Fl. orange-brown-red, Apr to Jul. White sand, loam. Often with schistose rocks, on lateritic slopes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 July 1995
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 170-340 mm long, 20-40 mm wide, hairy; petiole 60-125 mm long; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth pointing outwards, the margins flat. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), orange, red or brown; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long, hairy. Perianth 15-18 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 18-21 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 25-32 mm long. Flowers in April, May, June or July. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Denmark, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.