Australian Native Plants

  Banksia brownii (Brown's Banksia)


Banksia brownii photo
Banksia brownii, shrubby form

Photograph by Cas Liber. License: Public Domain.    (view image details)

Banksia brownii photo
Two leaves of Banksia brownii. Above: a leaf of the shrubby "mountain form". Below: a leaf of the "Millbrook Road form", which usually grows as a tree.

Photograph by Cas Liber. License: Public Domain.    (view image details)



Growth Characteristics information is sourced from: State Flora Catalog, Government of South Australia Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.



BROWN'S BANKSIA FACTS

distribution map showing range of Banksia brownii in Australia

Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License


Common Name
Brown's Banksia

Description
Brown's Banksia (also known as the Feather-leaved Banksia) varies from a bushy shrub to open spreading shrub or small tree. This Banksia from Western Australia has attractive feather shaped leaves that grow to 10cm long a 1cm wide. The leaves are dark green above and white and hairy below, and finely divided with sickle shaped lobes to the midrib. The bark is smooth grey-brown. Brown's Banksia flower spikes are reddish brown or pale brown cylinders to 19cm in height and 10cm wide. The flowers are borne in late summer, autumn and winter. Fruit is a woody cone about 5cm in diameter that carries the withered flowers giving it a shaggy appearance. The plant does not have a lignotuber.

Habitat
grows on sandy soil, loam and gravel soils in open heathlands, mountain slopes and open forest

Distribution
Stirling Range in south west Western Australia,

Growth Characteristics
Height (m): 2 - 6
Spread (m): 2 - 3
Soil Texture: sand, loam
Soil pH: acid soils, neutral soils
Frost Sensitivity: sensitive / moderately sensitive
Minimum Rainfall (mm): 600
Flower Colour: red / brown
Flower Season: autumn, winter

(source: SA State Flora Catalog)

Wildlife Interest
birds, nectar



Classification
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Proteales
Family:Proteaceae
Genus:Banksia
Species:brownii
Common Name:Brown's Banksia


Relatives in same Genus
  Banksia aculeata
  Banksia aemula
  Banksia anatona
  Banksia ashbyi
  Banksia attenuata
  Banksia audax
  Banksia baueri
  Banksia baxteri
  Banksia benthamiana
  Banksia blechnifolia
  Banksia burdettii
  Banksia caleyi
  Banksia candolleana
  Banksia canei
  Banksia carlinoides
  Banksia chamaephyton
  Banksia coccinea
  Banksia conferta ssp conferta
  Banksia conferta ssp penicillata
  Banksia cuneata
  Banksia dallanneyi
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