Banksia brunnea
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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 Template:Cvt but does not form a lignotuber. Its leaves are dark green, Template:Cvt long, Template:Cvt wide on a petiole Template:Cvt 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 Template:Cvt long and a deep red pistil Template:Cvt long. Flowering occurs in August and the fruit is a mostly glabrous, egg-shaped follicle Template:Cvt long.[1][2]
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.[3][4] 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".[5] The specific epithet is from a Latin word meaning "brown".[6][7]
Distribution and habitat
Banksia brunnea grows in kwongan between Albany, the Stirling Range and the Fitzgerald River National Park.[1][2]
Conservation status
This species is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[1]
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.[8]
References
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