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

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, tufted shrub, to 0.45 m high. Gravelly sandy clay-loam, red-brown loam over spongolite. Flats, gentle slopes and rises, hilltops, breakaways.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.30-0.45 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 120-250 mm long, 14-20 mm wide, hairy; petiole 45-50 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 21-28 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 18-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 39-43 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 56-60 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 5-6 mm long. Flowers in September or October. 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.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Plantagenet.