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Banksia sceptrum Meisn.
Sceptre Banksia

Reference
Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:120 (1855)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched, lignotuberous shrub, 1.5-5 m high. Fl. yellow, Nov to Dec or Jan. Yellow or pale red-brown sand. Dunes & in swales.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 1.5-5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 40-105 mm long, 12-20 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-15 mm long; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 10-17 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), yellow, hairy. Perianth 27-30 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 40-42 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), elliptic, 15-25 mm long. Flowers in January, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Edel, Geraldton Hills, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Greater Geraldton, Northampton, Shark Bay.