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

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.25-1 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Nov to Dec or Jan. Sandy loam or clay with lateritic gravel. Plains, lateritic ridges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 255-410 mm long, 25-75 mm wide, hairy; petiole 50-150 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 10-22 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), brown; innermost bracts 12-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 40-42 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 50-55 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 16-20 mm long. Flowers in December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), 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, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Plantagenet.