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Banksia anatona (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

Upright, non-lignotuberous shrub, to 5 m high. Fl. yellow, Jan to Mar. Grey sand over gravelly shale, rocky silty clay loam. Lower slopes of ranges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 35-75 mm long, 8-22 mm wide, hairy; petiole 7-14 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 7-12 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long, hairy. Perianth 40-45 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 45-52 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 23-24 mm long. Flowers in January. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Perth, Plantagenet.