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

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

Erect, dense, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.45-2.5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jan to Dec. Gravelly soils, sand, lateritic clay.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 120-310 mm long, 12-17 mm wide, hairy; petiole 20-30 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 14-40 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), brown; innermost bracts 18-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 18-20 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 20-30 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), curved-obovate, 10-15 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

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