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Banksia violacea C.A.Gardner
Violet Banksia

Reference
J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 13:62, Pl. 24K-O (1928)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.2-2 m high, sometimes with lignotuber. Fl. violet/violet & green/green-yellow, May or Aug or Oct to Dec or Jan to Mar. White, yellow sand or sandy loam over laterite, clay or quartzite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 10-25 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; 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, hairy. Perianth 17-26 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 27-40 mm long, hooked, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous or hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), elliptic, 10-25 mm long. Flowers in March, May, June, July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Corrigin, Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Wickepin, Woodanilling.