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Banksia verticillata R.Br.
Albany Banksia

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:207 (1810)
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

Non-lignotuberous shrub or tree (rarely), 1.3-6 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Jan to Apr. Sandy loam. On or beside granite outcrops.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 August 1995
Image

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate or whorled, 40-85 mm long, 7-15 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-12 mm long; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow, hairy. Perianth 19-26 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 28-37 mm long, hooked, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), elliptic, 11-15 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March or April. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Denmark, Manjimup, Plantagenet.