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Banksia pallida (A.S.George) 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

Upright, columnar, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.7-2.5 m high. Fl. yellow, May to Aug. Sand or clay with gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 50-80 mm long, 20-30 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-10 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 3-5 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 10-13 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-27 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 29-31 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 8-10 mm long. Flowers in May or June. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.