''Banksia hewardiana'' is a species of openly branched shrub that is

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to Western Australia. It has linear, serrated leaves with sharply pointed teeth, head of up to sixty lemon-yellow flowers and oblong follicles.

Description

''Banksia hewardiana'' is an openly branched shrub that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. The leaves are serrated, linear in outline, long and wide on a petiole up to long. There are between five and fifteen sharply pointed teeth on each side of the leaves. Groups of between thirty-five and sixty sweetly-scented flowers are borne in a head on a side branch about long. There are hairy, lance-shaped involucral bracts up to long at the base of the head. The flowers have a lemon-yellow

perianth The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepals when ...

long and a cream-coloured

pistil Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' ...

long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from July to November and the follicles are oblong to egg-shaped, long and sparsely hairy.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name ''Dryandra hewardiana'' and published the description in de Candolle's ''

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis ''Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' (1824–1873), also known by its standard botanical abbreviation ''Prodr. (DC.)'', is a 17-volume treatise on botany initiated by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. De Candolle intended it as a summa ...

'' from specimens collected by James Drummond. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''hewardiana'') honours the English botanist

Robert Heward The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

(1791–1877). In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus ''Banksia'' and renamed this species ''Banksia hewardiana''.

Distribution and habitat

''Banksia hewardiana'' grows in woodland and heath between Cataby,

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and Moora.

Conservation status

This banksia is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

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References

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q4856618 hewardiana Endemic flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Carl Meissner Plants described in 1856 Taxa named by Kevin Thiele