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

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:68 (2007)
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

Prostrate, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-0.3 m high. Fl. red-pink-cream, Oct to Nov. Gravelly sand or sandy loam.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 0.50-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 140-390 mm long, 20-70 mm wide, hairy; petiole 30-40 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 15-25 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), pink; innermost bracts 13-15 mm long, hairy. Perianth 32-34 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 31-33 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 10-15 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook, Woodanilling.