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Banksia rufa A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele subsp. rufa

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to sprawling, bushy, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-0.8 m high. Fl. cream-yellow/yellow-brown, Aug to Oct. Sandy loam over lateritic gravel. Sandplains, gravelly slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.45-0.70 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 220-435 mm long, 8-33 mm wide, hairy; petiole 75-190 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, with 8-12 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 32-50 mm long, hairy. Perianth 34-43 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 35-41 mm long, straight or curved, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 12-13 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dumbleyung, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Wagin, Wickepin.