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Banksia alliacea A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:65 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Domed, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. yellow-brown, Sep to Dec or Jan to Feb or May. Grey sand, sandy clay, gravel, gravelly loam or clay.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 310-610 mm long, 60-130 mm wide, hairy; petiole 50-150 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, with 12-23 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), brown; innermost bracts 27-30 mm long, hairy. Perianth 38-41 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 33-38 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles glabrous or hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 15-20 mm long. Flowers in January, February or December. 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
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.