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Banksia bella A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
Wongan Dryandra

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:65 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense, sprawling, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct. Gravelly lateritic clay, laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 75-170 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, hairy; petiole 6-15 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 20-42 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), green or yellow; innermost bracts 6-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 20-24 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 40-45 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), orbicular, 6-8 mm long. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wongan-Ballidu.