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Banksia drummondii subsp. hiemalis (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:67 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-0.5 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, May to Jun. Lateritic gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Prostrate shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 240-400 mm long, 47-65 mm wide, hairy; petiole 70-140 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 6-12 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 33-40 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 May or June. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Mallee (MAL) 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, Northern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Brookton, Chittering, Jerramungup, Kent, Kulin, Northam, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling, York.