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Banksia plumosa (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:69 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, dense shrub, 0.45-2.5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jan to Dec. Sand, clay, gravel, laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.

Nuytsia Journal Articles

A newly discovered population at Cape Le Grand supports Lucky Bay as the type locality of Banksia plumosa (Proteaceae)

MARKEY, A.S., Nuytsia 22 (5): 337–340 (2012)

Details PDF
The type gathering of Banksia plumosa (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele was collected by Robert Brown from Bay 1 (Lucky Bay, c. 35 km east of Esperance) in January 1802 (Figure 1). Over the following two centuries, further collections of this species have been made in an area from the Stirling Range and Albany eastwards to the Fitzgerald River (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–). However, B. plumosa has not been recorded again from any area east of Bremer Bay. George (1999) concluded that the type locality was in error, and that the more likely type location was in the Albany district (King George Sound), where Brown collected from late December 1801 to early January 1802 (Vallance et al. 1993).