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Banksia octotriginta (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:69 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense shrub, 0.25-1 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jul to Aug. Lateritic loam.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.25-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 250-365 mm long, 30-60 mm wide, hairy; petiole 30-60 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 10-18 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 18-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 35-40 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 38-65 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 13-15 mm long. Flowers in July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Merredin, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Corrigin, Dumbleyung, Kent, Kulin, Lake Grace, Wagin, Wickepin, Woodanilling.