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

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:68 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Straggly or erect, prickly, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct. Sand, sandy loam or clay loam over laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.50-1 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 30-95 mm long, 10-25 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-16 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 6-12 lobes on each side, the margins flat or revolute. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 13-22 mm long, hairy. Perianth 22-25 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 26-37 mm long, straight or curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), 5-6 mm long. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broomehill-Tambellup, Dumbleyung, Katanning, Kent, Kulin, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Wagin, Wickepin.