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Banksia strahanensis
Taxonomy
Banksia strahanensis was named by Jordan and Hill (1991). It is not extant. It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is RPU-381, a leaf.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1991 | Banksia strahanensis Jordan and Hill pp. 501-505 figs. 2,4,6 and 8 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Banksia strahanensis Jordan and Hill 1991
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. J. Jordan and R. S. Hill 1991 | Leaf linear,bifacial, entire, obtuse and mucronate, 2-3 mm wide, about 40 mm long, petiole 3.5-4 mm long, margins thicj and revolute, non-stomatiferous surface sparsely hairy, stomatiferous surface with prominent midrib, lamina between margin and midrib exposed and densely hairy. Cuticle of non-stomatiferous surface with roughly isodiametric cells without papillae or ribbing, 1-3 celled trichome bases of rounded, slightly enlarged cells present. Cuticle of stomatiferous surface with lamina between midrib and each margin uniformly composed of superficial stomates evenly interspersed with rhomboidal cells bearing single trichome bases and with porose cell walls except near the margins and midrib, where all cells bear single trichome bases. Cuticle of midrib of elongate, thick-walled cells with occasional 1-2 celled trichome bases. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Kiessling 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Banksia strahanensis (167014) |