Banksia lemanniana
Banksia lemanniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is native to Western Australia and grows as an open woody shrub or small tree to five metres high. The flowers are green-yellow in colour and smell of honey.
About Banksia lemanniana in brief
Banksia lemanniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, native to Western Australia. It generally grows as an open woody shrub or small tree to five metres high, with stiff serrated leaves and unusual hanging inflorescences. Flowering occurs over summer, the greenish buds developing into oval flower spikes before turning grey and developing the characteristic large woody follicles. It occurs within and just east of the Fitzgerald River National Park on the southern coast of the state. Unlike many Western Australian banksias, it appears to have some resistance to dieback from the soil-borne water mould Phytophthora cinnamomi, and is one of the easier Western Australian species to grow in cultivation. B. lemanniana was named in honour of English botanist Charles Morgan Lemann. It is classified as Not Threatened under the Wildlife Conservation Act of Western Australia, and regenerates from seed after being killed by bushfire. It can only be distinguished by the cones and flowers, which are widely different from each other.
No subspecies are recognised. The first known botanical collection of B. lemann Diana was made by James Drummond in 1847, during his voyage of botanical exploration through the Stirling Ranges. This is now recognised as a reference to the celebrated Hakea victoria, which Drummond sent home in 1852. The name Blemannia was first used in print 1852 in an article in The Inquirer, which published it on April 14, 1852, and it appeared in The Banksia, a journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, from 1852 to 1853. It was the first time the name had been used for a flowering plant of this type in the UK. The flowers are green-yellow in colour and smell of honey, and drip large amounts of nectar. They can reach 4.5 cm in length and 8–10 cm in diameter. The obovate seed is 4–4. 7 cm long and fairly flattened. The hypocotyl is red and measures 1–2 cm high and 0. 25–0. 3 cm wide.
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