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Banksia goodii R.Br.
Good's Banksia

Reference
Prodr. Suppl. 36 (1830)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Lignotuberous, prostrate shrub, ca 0.2 m high. Fl. orange-brown-red, May or Nov. White or grey sand over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 27 July 1995
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 120-330 mm long, 30-80 mm wide, hairy; petiole 30-210 mm long; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 12-24 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), orange, red or brown; innermost bracts 12-15 mm long, hairy. Perianth 23-25 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 28-32 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 25-32 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Jarrah Forest.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Plantagenet.