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Banksia rufa subsp. pumila (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:69 (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

Erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-0.5 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Oct. Rocky shale slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 135-330 mm long, 20-45 mm wide, hairy; petiole 80-150 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 6-12 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 40-44 mm long, hairy. Perianth 40-42 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 40-50 mm long, straight or curved, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 13-16 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook, Plantagenet.