Banksia carlinoides

Banksia carlinoides, commonly known as the pink dryandra,[2] is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves with a few sharply pointed serrations and heads of up to one hundred creamy white flowers, often tinged pink.

Pink dryandra
Banksia carlinoides near Hill River
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Banksia
Subgenus: Banksia subg. Banksia
Series: Banksia ser. Dryandra
Species:
B. carlinoides
Binomial name
Banksia carlinoides
Synonyms[1]
  • Dryandra carlinoides Meisn.
  • Josephia carlinodes Kuntze orth. var.
  • Josephia carlinoides (Meisn.) Kuntze
In the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne

Description

Banksia carlinoides is a rounded, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) but does not form a lignotuber. It has narrow egg-shaped to narrow wedge-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, 110–35 mm (4.3–1.4 in) long and 3–9 mm (0.12–0.35 in) wide on a petiole 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. There are up to four sharply pointed teeth up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long on each side of the upper third of the leaf. The flowers are arranged in heads of between seventy-five and one hundred on the ends of the stems, surrounded by involucral bracts up to 13 mm (0.51 in) long. The flowers are creamy white, often tinged with pink, the perianth 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long and the pistil 16–23 mm (0.63–0.91 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is an elliptical to egg-shaped follicle 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name Dryandra carlinoides and published the description in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[4][5] The specific epithet (carlinoides) is a reference to a perceived similarity to plants in the genus Carlina.[6] In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus Banksia.[7][8]

Distribution and habitat

Pink dryandra grows in low kwongan and is widespread between Geraldton, Gingin and Piawaning.[3]

References
  1. "Banksia carlinoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  2. "Banksia carlinoides". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. George, Alex S. (1999). Flora of Australia (PDF). 17B. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. pp. 288–289. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. "Dryandra carlinoides". APNI. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  5. Meissner, Carl; Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.) (1848). Plantae Preissianae. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. p. 267. Retrieved 11 April 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  6. Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 159. ISBN 9780958034180.
  7. 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.
  8. "Banksia carlinoides". APNI. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  • Cavanagh, Tony; Pieroni, Margaret (2006). The Dryandras. Melbourne: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria); Perth: Wildflower Society of Western Australia. ISBN 1-876473-54-1.
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