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Banksia montana (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:68 (2007)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.9-2.5 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Jan to Feb. Sandy clay, rocky soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 60-225 mm long, 9-12 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-30 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, with 22-52 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 13-15 mm long, hairy. Perianth 17-20 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 25-30 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), ovate, 9-11 mm long. Flowers in January. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Gnowangerup, Perth.