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Banksia arctotidis (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:66 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate, or rounded, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-0.3 m high, up to 1 m wide. Fl. yellow/yellow-brown, Sep to Oct. Grey sand, gravel, laterite, skeletal sandy soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 50-220 mm long, 6-12 mm wide, hairy; petiole 10-30 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 25-45 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences cream; innermost bracts 20-22 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 26-31 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 39-45 mm long, straight, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 10-14 mm long. Flowers in September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Boyup Brook, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kojonup, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.