Banksia meganotia

Banksia meganotia
Banksia meganotia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Banksia
Subgenus: Banksia subg. Banksia
Series: Banksia ser. Dryandra
Species: B. meganotia
Binomial name
Banksia meganotia
(A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Banksia meganotia is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.

An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that it was likely to be driven to extinction by loss of habitat by 2080, even under mild climate change scenarios.[1]

References

  1. ^ Fitzpatrick, Matthew C.; et al. (2008). "Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: the Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia". Global Change Biology 14 (6): 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01559.x.