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Banksia solandri R.Br.
Stirling Range Banksia

Reference
Prodr. Suppl. 36 (1830)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.5-4 m high. Fl. red-brown/brown-purple, Sep to Dec. Rocky soils or sand over sandstone or quartzite. Rocky slopes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 95-300 mm long, 55-90 mm wide, hairy; petiole 25-60 mm long; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 4-8 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), yellow or brown, hairy. Perianth 13-15 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 20-28 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 10-18 mm long. Flowers in September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

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