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Banksia densa var. parva (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

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

Columnar shrub, 0.7-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun to Aug. Gravelly clay loam, sandy loam, white sand.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.7-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 60-120 mm mm long, 7-15 mm wide, hairy; petiole 10-15 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, teeth distinctly pointing towards the apex, with 8-16 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long, hairy. Perianth 15-18 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 16-25 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 9-13 mm long. Flowers in June, July or August. 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). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).