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Family: Proteaceae
Banksia ornata

Citation: F. Muell. ex Meissner, Linnaea 26:352 (1854).

Synonymy: Sirmuellera ornata (F. Muell. ex Meissner)Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:582 (1891); Banksia ornata F. Muell. ex Meissner var. rufa Ashby, Express and Journal (Adelaide) 27 July (1935), nom. invalid.

Common name: Desert banksia.

Description:
Much branched bushy shrub to 3 m tall, without a lignotuber; branches hirsute to pubescent; leaves narrow-obovate to obovate, obtuse to truncate, 3-11 X 0.4-2.5 cm, tapering into a short petiole, flat to slightly recurved, serrate with U- or V-shaped sinuses, hirsute and glabrescent above, loosely woolly between the hirsute nerves.

Inflorescence broad-cylindrical, 7-8 rarely 9 cm diam. at anthesis; flowers cream with a greyish-cream limb to pale-ferruginous; perianth 30-35 mm long, hirsute outside, with the narrow-ellipsoid limb upturned at anthesis and 3-4 mm long; anthers 2.5 mm long; pistil 35-38 mm long, straight at the base, up-curved in the distal third, pubescent just above the ovary, glabrous elsewhere.

Infructescence cylindrical-ovoid, 5-10 cm diam. including persistent floral remains; follicles usually opening only with fire, when closed and viewed above suture elliptic, 15-30 X 10-15 mm; seed obovate, 21-25 mm long, body 8-11 X 10-11 mm; wing 13-15 mm wide, deeply notched on the stylar side.

image of FSA1_Banksia_orn1.jpg twig with flowers
Image source: fig. 67b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Banksia_orn3.jpg flower
Image source: fig. 67b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Banksia_orn5.jpg pistil
Image source: fig. 67b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Banksia_orn4.jpg infructescence
Image source: fig. 67b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Banksia_orn2.jpg seed
Image source: fig. 67b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Beek & Foster (1972) Wild flowers of South Australia.

Distribution:  Sandy soils on dunes or over limestone or laterite, in mallee shrubland or low woodland.

S.Aust.: EP, MU, SL, KI, SE.   Western Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: all year.


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