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Banksia tortifolia (Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:70 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate, spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.15-0.25 m high, to 1 m wide. Fl. yellow-brown/cream-green, Aug to Oct. White, grey or yellow sand over laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.15-0.25 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 90-260 mm long, 8-18 mm wide, hairy; petiole 20-25 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 30-60 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs) or hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), green or pink; innermost bracts 18-24 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-30 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 40-51 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 12-14 mm long. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan.