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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).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Gingin, Gosnells, Kalamunda, Nannup, Plantagenet, Victoria Plains.