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Banksia sphaerocarpa var. latifolia Benth.

Reference
Fl.Austral. 5:546 (1870)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, 25-48 mm long, 1.6-2 mm wide, hairy; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), cream or yellow, hairy. Perianth 30-32 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 35-38 mm long, hooked. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Plantagenet.