''Banksia serra'', commonly known as serrate-leaved dryandra, is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has broadly linear, serrated leaves, pale yellow flowers in heads of about thirty and egg-shaped follicles.

Description

''Banksia serra'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has slender stems and broadly linear leaves long and wide on a petiole long. There are between eight and twenty broadly triangular serrations on each side of the leaves. Between twenty and thirty-six pale yellow flowers are arranged in heads with narrow egg-shaped to lance-shaped involucral bracts long at the base of each head. The perianth is long and more or less straight, and the

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'' ...

is long with a green pollen presenter. Flowering occurs from July to October and the follicles are egg-shaped but curved, long.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown who gave it the name ''Dryandra serra'' and published the description in the ''

Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae ''Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae'' ("First supplement to the Prodromus of the flora of New Holland") is an 1830 supplement to Robert Brown's ''Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. It may be referred to ...

'' from specimens collected by William Baxter near King George's Sound in 1829. 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 ...

(''serra'') is a Latin word meaning "saw", referring to the leaves. In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus '' Banksia'' and this species became ''Banksia serra''.

Distribution and habitat

''Banksia serra'' grows in woodland, forest and mallee-

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from the Bow River to

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Ecology

An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that its range is likely to contract by between 30% and 80% by 2080, depending on the severity of the change.

Conservation status

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

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References

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Plants described in 1830 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)