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

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:66 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Compact, pungent, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-2.5 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Jul to Nov. Lateritic gravelly soils, yellow sand. Hillslopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 55-120 mm long, 15-35 mm wide, hairy; petiole 4-6 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 8-9 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 22-25 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-35 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 37-47 mm long, straight or curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or 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, Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Three Springs.