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Banksia mimica (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
Summer Honeypot

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

Prostrate, lignotuberous shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow-brown, Dec or Jan to Feb. White or grey sand over laterite, sandy loam.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.25-0.40 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 130-325 mm long, 7-14 mm wide, hairy; petiole 40-60 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, with 24-77 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs) or villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 22-25 mm long, hairy. Perianth 28-32 mm long, hairy, all over, without awns; pistil 28-30 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), oblong, 13-20 mm long. Flowers in January or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).