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

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:67 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Non-lignotuberous shrub, to 1.5 m high, to 2 m wide. Fl. yellow & red, Jan. Sand & 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, 250-355 mm long, 25-28 mm wide, hairy; petiole 40-150 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, with 9-15 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), brown; innermost bracts 12-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 36-38 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 52-60 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 16-20 mm long. Flowers in January or February. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Kent, Plantagenet.