Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Proteales → Proteaceae Juss. → Banksia L.f. → Banksia oligantha A.S.George
Non-lignotuberous shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. red & cream/orange-brown, Oct to Nov. Yellow or yellow-brown sand.
Beard’s Provinces: South-West Province.
IBRA Regions: Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions: Avon Wheatbelt P2, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs): Kojonup, Narrogin, Wagin, Wickepin.
Shrubs, 2-3.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 20-40 mm mm long, 10-20 mm wide, hairy; petiole 10-15 mm long; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 3-6 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 3-5 mm long, hairy. Perianth 17-19 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 20-22 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), ovate, 14-19 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). Conservation code Declared Rare (R).
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