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Banksia horrida (Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
Prickly Dryandra

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

Upright, lignotuberous shrub, 0.6-1.6 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Apr to Jun or Aug. Sand, sometimes with gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 100-195 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, hairy; petiole 10-15 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 11-22 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 28-30 mm long, hairy. Perianth 22-28 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 23-32 mm long, straight, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 11-12 mm long. Flowers in March, April, May or June. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Corrigin, Dowerin, Goomalling, Narembeen, Quairading, Tammin, Yilgarn.