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Banksia squarrosa subsp. argillacea (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:70 (2007)
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

Erect, open, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1.2-4 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun to Nov. White/grey sand, gravelly clay or loam. Winter-wet flats, clay flats.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 40-65 mm long, 5-9 mm wide, hairy; petiole 10-15 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, with 3-7 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 7-9 mm long, hairy. Perianth 18-20 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 22-25 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, ovate, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Donnybrook-Balingup, Nannup, Perth.