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

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:66 (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

Upright, non-lignotuberous shrub, to 5 m high. Fl. yellow, Jan to Mar. Grey sand over gravelly shale, rocky silty clay loam. Lower slopes of ranges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 35-75 mm long, 8-22 mm wide, hairy; petiole 7-14 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 7-12 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long, hairy. Perianth 40-45 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 45-52 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 23-24 mm long. Flowers in January. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.