Banksia cuneata

An Interim Recovery Plan will be developed for the Banksia cuneata ensuring that this threatened taxa are conserved.

It was declared as rare flora under the Wildlife Conservation Act in 1982.

With the main threats being weed invasion, rabbit activity, road maintenance, farming activities, chemical drift, disease, senescence, lack of natural recruitment, drought stress, salinity, rising water tables, exposure to wind, habitat degradation, absence of permanent pollinator populations, accumulation of non-wetting soil, inappropriate fire regimes, and climate change.

There are 12 natural populations and one translocated population totaling some 659 plants (approx 2000), 44% of these occurring in the Shire of Quairading.