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Banksia gardneri var. hiemalis A.S.George

Reference
Nuytsia 3:372 (1981)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate shrub, to 0.35 m high, leaves pale green, pinnatipartite (lobes 0.5-2.5 cm long). Fl. brown & pink, Jun to Aug. Sand or sandy loam, usually over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 27 July 1995
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 250-360 mm long, 20-35 mm wide, hairy; petiole 75-100 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 13-18 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), pink or brown; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long, hairy. Perianth 23-28 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 22-30 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 25-32 mm long. Flowers in July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Jerramungup, Kulin, Ravensthorpe, Wickepin.