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Banksia xylothemelia (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:71 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Often sprawling, lignotuberous shrub, to 1 m high, sometimes suckering. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Sandy loam, usually over laterite. Sandplains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 70-170 mm long, 15-45 mm wide, hairy; petiole 8-20 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 4-10 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 14-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 20-257 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 22-33 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles glabrous or hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), oblong, 9-11 mm long. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dumbleyung, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace.