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Banksia sessilis var. flabellifolia (A.S.George) 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

Non-lignotuberous shrub or tree, 0.5-5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jun to Oct. Deep sand & lateritic soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, 25-40 mm long, 17-35 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth distinctly pointing towards the apex, with 5-6 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 7-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 22-30 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 25-30 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), ovate, 10-11 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain.
IMCRA Regions
Central West Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Coorow, Dandaragan, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Moora, Northampton, Three Springs.