Episode Details

Brown’s Banksia :: Banksia brownii

Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 054

On today’s show we learn about the Brown's Banksia, a critically endangered flowering shrub native to southwestern Australia, about 200 miles south of Perth in the state of Western Australia.

• (00:05) Intro
• (02:05) Species Information
• (24:04) Citations
• (26:01) Music
• (31:33) Pledge

For more information about Brown’s Banksia conservation please see the Australian government’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - https://www.dcceew.gov.au

Research for today’s show was compiled from:

• Australian Government’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water – http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=8277
• Barrett, S., Atkins, K., George, A. & Keith, D. 2020. Banksia brownii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T112520669A113306481. –  https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T112520669A113306481.en
• Coates, D., Dillon, R., & Barrett, S. 2018. “Threatened Plant Translocation Case Study: ‘Banksia Brownii’ (Feather Leaved Banksia), Proteaceae.” Australasian Plant Conservation: Journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation 27 (1): 3-6. – https://doi.org/10.5962/p.373741
• Coates, D.J., McArthur, S. L., Byrne, M. 2015. Significant genetic diversity loss following pathogen driven population extinction in the rare endemic Banksia brownii (Proteaceae), Biological Conservation, Volume 192, 2015, Pages 353-360. – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.10.013
• Day, D.A., Collins, B.G., Rees, R.G. (1997), Reproductive biology of the rare and endangered Banksia brownii Baxter ex R. Br. (Proteaceae). Australian Journal of Ecology, 22: 307-315. – https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00676.x
• Dillon, R., Coates D., Standish, R., Monks, L., Waycott, M. (2023) Assessing plant translocation success: common metrics mask high levels of inbreeding in a recently established Banksia brownii (Proteaceae) population. Australian Journal of Botany 71, 79-92. – https://doi.org/10.1071/BT22071
• Gilfillan, Sandra & Barrett, S.R.. Feather-Leaved Banksia (Banksia Brownii) Interim Recovery Plan 2005-2010. – https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/recovery-plans/feather-leaved-banksia-banksia-brownii-2005-2010
• Lamont Byron B., Enright Neal J., Witkowski E. T. F., Groeneveld J. (2007) Conservation biology of banksias: insights from natural history to simulation modelling. Australian Journal of Botany 55, 280-292. – https://doi.org/10.1071/BT06024
• Renshaw, Adrian. The reproductive biology of four Banksia L.f. species with contrasting life histories. Doctor of Philosophy thesis. U