Banksia catoglypta

Banksia catoglypta is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has pinnatisect leaves with sharply-pointed, triangular lobes and heads of golden brown and cream-coloured flowers.

Banksia catoglypta
Near Dandaragan
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. catoglypta
Binomial name
Banksia catoglypta
Synonyms[1]

Dryandra catoglypta A.S.George

Distribution and habitat

Banksia catoglypta is a shrub that typically grows to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and wide but lacks a lignotuber. The stems have characteristic, prominent egg-shaped to oval bracts at the base of each new year's growth. The leaves are 150–300 mm (5.9–11.8 in) long, 25–70 mm (0.98–2.76 in) wide on a petiole 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in) long and pinnatisect with between ten and fifteen sharply pointed, triangular lobes on each side. The flowers are arranged in groups of between 85 and 110 in each head on the end of a short branchlet. The heads are surrounded by silky-hairy, egg-shaped to oblong involucral bracts up to 25 mm (0.98 in) long. Each flower has a golden brown perianth 44–56 mm (1.7–2.2 in) long and a cream-coloured pistil 46–64 mm (1.8–2.5 in) long with a dull reddish pink pollen presenter. Flowering occurs from June to July and the fruit is a broadly egg-shaped follicle 15–17 mm (0.59–0.67 in) long and 17–20 mm (0.67–0.79 in) wide.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1996 by Alex George in the journal Nuytsia and given the name Dryandra catoglypta.[4][5] The specific epithet (catoglypta) is derived from ancient Greek words meaning "downwards" and "carved", referring to the bracts on the stem.[6] In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus Banksia.[7][8]

Distribution and habitat

This banksia grows on breakaways in kwongan on the Gairdner Range and north of Badgingarra in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region.[3][4]

Conservation status

Banksia catoglypta is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]

References
  1. "Banksia catoglypta". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  2. "Banksia catoglypta". 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. p. 310. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  4. George, Alex S. (1996). "New taxa and a new infrageneric classification in Dryandra R.Br. (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae)". Nuytsia. 10 (3): 369–370. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  5. "Dryandra catoglypta". APNI. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  6. Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 160. 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 catoglypta". APNI. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
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