Banksia foliolata
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Banksia foliolata is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has hairy stems, pinnatifid leaves, heads of about sixty cream-coloured and maroon flowers and oblong to elliptical follicles. It grows on rocky slopes in dense shrubland in the Stirling Range National Park.
Description
Banksia foliolata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of Template:Cvt but does not form a lignotuber. It has hairy stems and pinnatifid leaves that are oblong in outline, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide on a petiole Template:Cvt long. There are between ten and thirty-five egg-shaped lobes on each side of the leaves. The flowers are borne on a head containing between fifty and sixty flowers. There are egg-shaped to lance-shaped involucral bracts up to Template:Cvt long at the base of the head. The flowers have a cream-coloured perianth up to Template:Cvt long and a pistil Template:Cvt long and maroon in the upper half. Flowering occurs from October to November and the follicles are oblong to elliptical, Template:Cvt long and hairy only in the upper half.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
This banksia was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Dryandra foliolata and published the description in Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae from specimens collected by William Baxter near King George's Sound in 1829.[3][4] In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele changed the name to Banksia foliolata.[5] The specific epithet (foliolata) from a Latin word meaning "leaved" or "leafy".[6]
Distribution and habitat
Banksia foliolata grows on rocky slopes in dense shrubland in the Stirling Range National Park.[1]
Conservation status
This banksia is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife,[2] meaning that is rare or near threatened.[7]
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