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

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Sprawling, pungent, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1.2 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Aug to Sep. White or yellow sand over laterite or limestone. Sandplains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 50-110 mm long, 15-30 mm wide, hairy; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 5-12 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 20-35 mm long, hairy. Perianth 32-35 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 37-45 mm long, straight or curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR) or Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Greater Geraldton, Northampton.