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

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

Dense, rounded, ?non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-1.3 m high. Fl. yellow/orange & red/brown, Sep to Oct. Gravelly lateritic soils. Hillslopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.30-1 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 280-350 mm long, 5-13 mm wide, hairy; petiole 20-95 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 13-26 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 40-60 mm long, hairy. Perianth 38-45 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 44-52 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, elliptic or obovate, 15-17 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 Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ravensthorpe.