''Banksia stenoprion'' is a species of prostrate shrub that is

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to the south-west of Western Australia. It has short, underground stems, pinnatisect leaves with triangular lobes, golden, mauve or purple flowers in heads of up to ninety, and egg-shaped follicles.

Description

''Banksia stenoprion'' is a prostrate shrub with short, underground, fire-resistant stems. It has leaves that are pinnatisect, V-shaped in cross-section, long and wide on a petiole long. There are between forty and eighty-five narrow triangular to elliptical lobes on each side of the leaves. The flowers are golden, mauve or purple, arranged in heads of between sixty and ninety with rusty-hairy involucral bracts long at the base of each head. The

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 ...

is long 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'' ...

long. Flowering occurs from June to August and the follicles are egg-shaped, long and more or less glabrous.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1855 by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner who gave it the name ''Dryandra stenoprion'' and published the description in ''

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'' from specimens collected by James Drummond. In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus ''Banksia'' and renamed this species ''Banksia stenoprion''.

Distribution and habitat

''Banksia stenoprion'' occurs from Cockleshell Gully near

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to Badgingarra, where it grows in

kwongan Kwongan is plant community found in south-western Western Australia. The name is a Bibbelmun (Noongar) Aboriginal term of wide geographical use defined by Beard (1976) as Kwongan has replaced other terms applied by European botanists such as ...

Conservation status

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

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4856733 stenoprion Plants described in 1855 Taxa named by Carl Meissner