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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
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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