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Banksia scabrella A.S.George
Burma Road Banksia

Reference
Nuytsia 3:433-436 (1981)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched, lignotuberous shrub, 0.6-2 m high. Fl. yellow & cream & purple, Sep to Dec or Jan. White, grey or yellow sand, sometimes with lateritic gravel. Sandplains, lateritic ridges.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.75 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 15-75 mm long, 1 mm wide, hairy; petiole 1.5-2 mm long; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), yellow or violet, hairy. Perianth 23-35 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 30-46 mm long, hooked, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic. Flowers in January, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Three Springs.