''Banksia corvijuga'' is a species of densely-foliaged shrub that is

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to Western Australia. It has broadly linear, serrated leaves, heads of about sixty yellow flowers and glabrous follicles.

Description

''Banksia corvijuga'' is a densely-foliaged shrub that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has serrated, broadly linear leaves that are long and wide on a thin petiole long, with between ten and twenty-five triangular teeth on each side. The flowers are borne on a head containing about sixty flowers with broadly linear to egg-shaped, dark reddish brown involucral bracts long at the base of the head. The flowers are yellow with a

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 ...

long and a

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long. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is a glabrous, elliptical to egg-shaped follicle about long.

Taxonomy and naming

This banksia was first formally described in 1996 by

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in the journal ''

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'' and given the name ''Dryandra corvijuga'' from specimens collected in 1986 near Ravensthorpe. In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus '' Banksia'' and this species became ''Banksia corvijuga''. 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 ...

(''corvijuga'') is derived from Latin words meaning "a crow or raven" and "paired or yoked together", referring to the Ravensthorpe Range.

Distribution and habitat

''Banksia corvijuga'' grows in dense shrubland in the Ravensthorpe Range.

Conservation status

This banksia is classified as " Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia

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meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4856576 corvijuga Plants described in 1996 Endemic flora of Western Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Taxa named by Kevin Thiele