Biology:Banksia brunnea
| Banksia brunnea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Banksia |
| Subgenus: | Banksia subg. Banksia |
| Series: | Banksia ser. Dryandra |
| Species: | B. brunnea
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| Binomial name | |
| Banksia brunnea A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele[1]
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Banksia brunnea is a species of low, bushy shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has dark green pinnatisect leaves, heads of up to seventy pink and brownish flowers and glabrous follicles in the fruiting head.
Description
Banksia brunnea is a bushy, much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7 m (2 ft 4 in) but does not form a lignotuber. Its leaves are dark green, 150–350 mm (5.9–13.8 in) long, 10–16 mm (0.39–0.63 in) wide on a petiole 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) long and pinnatisect with between forty and seventy-five lobes on each side with V-shaped spaces between the lobes. The flowers are arranged in heads of between fifty-five and seventy flowers, each flower with a pink perianth 28–39 mm (1.1–1.5 in) long and a deep red pistil 41–54 mm (1.6–2.1 in) long. Flowering occurs in August and the fruit is a mostly glabrous, egg-shaped follicle 12–14 mm (0.47–0.55 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
This banksia was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name Dryandra brownii and published the description in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[4][5] In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus Banksia but as there was already a plant named Banksia brownii, Mast and Thiele chose the specific epithet "brunnea".[6] The specific epithet is from a Latin word meaning "brown".[7][8]
Distribution and habitat
Banksia brunnea grows in kwongan between Albany, the Stirling Range and the Fitzgerald River National Park.[2][3]
Conservation status
This species is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]
Ecology
An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that its range is likely to contract by between 30% and 80% by 2080, depending on the severity of the change.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Banksia brunnea". https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/204903.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Banksia brunnea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/32597.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 George, Alex S. (1999). Flora of Australia. 17B. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. p. 357. https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/6d8c5c3b-8545-437e-b9b3-944ac95ee07a/files/flora-australia-17b-proteaceae-3-hakea-dryandra.pdf. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ↑ "Dryandra brownii". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/526816.
- ↑ Meissner, Carl; Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.) (1845). Plantae Preissianae. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. p. 595. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9227#page/600/mode/1up. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ↑ "Banksia brunnea". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/614000.
- ↑ Mast, Austin R.; Thiele, Kevin (2007). "The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany 20 (1): 63–71. doi:10.1071/SB06016.
- ↑ Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 151. ISBN 9780958034180.
- ↑ Fitzpatrick, Matthew C.; Gove, Aaron D.; Sanders, Nathan J.; Dunn, Robert R. (2008). "Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: the Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia". Global Change Biology 14 (6): 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01559.x. Bibcode: 2008GCBio..14.1337F.
- Cavanagh, Tony; Pieroni, Margaret (2006). The Dryandras. Melbourne: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria); Perth: Wildflower Society of Western Australia. ISBN 1-876473-54-1.
Wikidata ☰ Q4856564 entry
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