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Banksia acuminata A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:65 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate, lignotuberous shrub, to 0.2 m high, to 1 m wide. Fl. yellow-orange, Oct. Gravelly soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.10-0.40 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 90-250 mm long, 25-70 mm wide, hairy; petiole 25-65 mm long; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 15-20 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), pink or purple; innermost bracts 20-28 mm long, hairy. Perianth 24-25 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 35-38 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 10-11 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Boyup Brook, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Katanning, Kojonup, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Wagin, West Arthur, Woodanilling.