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

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:66 (2007)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate, lignotuberous shrub. Fl. red-orange-brown-cream, Apr. White/grey sand. Seasonally waterlogged plains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
Image

Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.10-0.35 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 130-360 mm long, 25-70 mm wide, hairy; petiole 50-95 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 15-28 lobes on each side, the margins recurved or revolute. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), orange, pink or brown; innermost bracts 15-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 32-37 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 35-40 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 15-16 mm long. Flowers in April. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
York.