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Banksia subulata (C.A.Gardner) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
Awled Honeypot

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:70 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Bushy, non-lignotuberous shrub, to 0.35 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep. White/grey or yellow sand over laterite, gravelly laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.4 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 120-310 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, hairy; petiole 1 mm long; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), green or yellow; innermost bracts 11-15 mm long, hairy. Perianth 20-24 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 21-24 mm long, straight, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, orbicular, 11-13 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

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