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Two new Banksia species from Pleistocene sediments in Western Tasmania
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Jordan, GJ and Hill, RS 1991
, 'Two new Banksia species from Pleistocene sediments in Western Tasmania'
, Australian Systematic Botany, vol. 4, no. 3
, pp. 499-511
, doi: 10.1071/SB9910499.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SB9910499
Abstract
Rapid and extreme environmental changes during the Pleistocene are likely causes of the extinction of some Banksia species in Tasmania. The leaves and infructescences of Banksia kingii Jordan & Hill, sp. nov. are described from late Pleistocene sediments. Banksia kingii is related to the extant B. saxicola. Banksia strahanensis Jordan & Hill, sp. nov. (known only from a leaf and leaf fragments and related to B. spinulosa) is described from Early to Middle Pleistocene sediments in Tasmania. This represents the third Pleistocene macrofossil record of a plant species which is now extinct in Tasmania.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Jordan, GJ and Hill, RS |
Keywords: | extinction, quaternary, macrofossil |
Journal or Publication Title: | Australian Systematic Botany |
DOI / ID Number: | 10.1071/SB9910499 |
Additional Information: | The definitive version is available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/150.htm |
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