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Banksia nivea Labill. subsp. nivea

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

Tufted, rounded to prostrate, non-lignotuberous shrub, (0.15-)0.3-0.7(-1) m high. Fl. cream-yellow-orange-pink/red-brown, Jul to Nov. Sandy soils, often with gravel, laterite, granitic soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 160-350 mm long, 4-10 mm wide, hairy; petiole 15-25 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 48-77 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), brown; innermost bracts 18-26 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-38 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 40-50 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 9-13 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Carnamah, Chittering, Coorow, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Mandurah, Narrogin, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Stirling, Three Springs, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, Waroona, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling.