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Banksia serratuloides (Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele subsp. serratuloides

Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low, bushy, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Sep. Loam or clay loam over laterite, sandy gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 30-50 mm long, 7-17 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-15 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 6-10 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), pink; innermost bracts 8-13 mm long, hairy. Perianth 19-23 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 25-29 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 5-6 mm long. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Victoria Plains.