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Banksia Ser. Banksia
''Banksia'' ser. ''Banksia'' is a valid botanic name for a series of ''Banksia''. As an autonym, it necessarily contains the type species of ''Banksia'', '' B. serrata'' (Saw Banksia). Within this constraint, however, there have been various circumscriptions. According to Bentham ''Banksia'' ser. ''Banksia'' originated in 1870 as ''Banksia'' sect. ''Orthostylis''. Published by George Bentham in 1870, ''B.'' sect. ''Orthostylis'' consisted of those ''Banksia'' species with flat leaves with serrated margins, and rigid, erect styles that "give the cones after the flowers have opened a different aspect". The placement and circumscription of ''B.'' sect. ''Orthostylis'' in Bentham's arrangement can be summarised as follows: :''Banksia'' :: ''B.'' sect. ''Oncostylis'' (13 species) :: ''B.'' sect. ''Cyrtostylis'' (10 species) :: ''B.'' sect. ''Eubanksia'' (3 species) ::''B.'' sect. ''Orthostylis'' :::''B. latifolia'' (now '' B. robur'') ::: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Serrata
''Banksia serrata'', commonly known as the saw banksia, the old man banksia, the saw-tooth banksia or the red honeysuckle and as wiriyagan by the Cadigal people, is a species of woody shrub or tree of the genus ''Banksia'', in the family Proteaceae. Native to the east coast of Australia, it is found from Queensland to Victoria with outlying populations on Tasmania and Flinders Island. Commonly growing as a gnarled tree up to 16 m (50 ft) in height, it can be much smaller in more exposed areas. This ''Banksia'' species has wrinkled grey bark, shiny dark green serrated leaves and large yellow or greyish-yellow flower spikes appearing over summer. The flower spikes, or inflorescences, turn grey as they age and pollinated flowers develop into large, grey, woody seed pods called follicles. ''B. serrata'' is one of the four original ''Banksia'' species collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, and one of four species published in 1782 as part of Carolus Linnaeus the Younger's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Laevigata
''Banksia laevigata'', commonly known as the tennis ball banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has serrated, broadly linear to narrow wedge-shaped leaves, yellow or yellowish green flowers, depending on subspecies, and linear to elliptic follicles with a slightly wrinkled surface. Description ''Banksia laevigata'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has roughly flaky, grey bark but does not form a lignotuber. The leaves are serrated, broadly linear to narrow wedge-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. Both surface of young leaves are hairy but become glabrous with age. The flowers are borne in spherical heads wide, usually on the ends of short side branches. The flowers are yellow or yellowish green and have a perianth long and a curved pistil long. Flowering occurs from September to December or from January to February and the follicles are linear to elliptical, long, high and wide. Each head contains up to 100 foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Subg
''Banksia'' is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes, and fruiting "cones" and heads. ''Banksias'' range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres (100 ft) tall. They are found in a wide variety of landscapes: sclerophyll forest, (occasionally) rainforest, shrubland, and some more arid landscapes, though not in Australia's deserts. Heavy producers of nectar, ''banksias'' are a vital part of the food chain in the Australian bush. They are an important food source for nectarivorous animals, including birds, bats, rats, possums, stingless bees and a host of invertebrates. Further, they are of economic importance to Australia's nursery and cut flower industries. However, these plants are threatened by a number of processes including land clearing, frequent burning and disease, and a number of species are rare and endangered. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Genus Banksia L
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Banksia Candolleana
''Banksia candolleana'', commonly known as the propeller banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has shiny green, deeply serrated leaves with triangular lobes and spikes of golden yellow flowers on short side branches. Description ''Banksia candolleana'' is a many-branched shrub that typically grows to high, up to wide and forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are linear in outline, long and wide on a hairy petiole long. The leaves are shiny green with deep triangular lobes on the margins. The flower spikes are arranged in oval spikes long and wide on short side branches. The flowers are golden yellow with a perianth long and a curved pistil long. Flowering occurs from April to July and usually up to five curved, egg-shaped follicles long, high, wide and surrounded by the old flowers form on each spike. Taxonomy ''Banksia candolleana'' was first formally described in 1855 by the Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in William Jackson Hooker's Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Elegans
''Banksia elegans'', commonly known as the elegant banksia, is a species of woody shrub that is Endemism, endemic to a relatively small area of Western Australia. Reaching high, it is a suckering shrub that rarely reproduces by seed. The round to oval yellow flower spikes appear in spring and summer. Swiss botanist Carl Meissner described ''Banksia elegans'' in 1856. It is most closely related to the three species in the Banksia subg. Isostylis, subgenus ''Isostylis''. Description ''Banksia elegans'' grows as a many-stemmed spreading shrub to high. It commonly sends up suckers from either the roots or trunk. The trunk is up to in diameter and covered with grey tessellated bark. The new stems are covered with fine hair and become smooth with maturity. New growth mainly occurs in summer. The long thin pale blue-green leaves are long and wide. Their margins are prominently serrated in a saw-tooth pattern with triangular teeth and v-shaped sinuses. The yellow flower spikes, or i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Lindleyana
''Banksia lindleyana'', commonly known as the porcupine banksia, is a species of woody shrub in the genus ''Banksia'' of the family Proteaceae. It generally grows as a small shrub to 1 m (3 ft) high with long narrow serrated leaves, and bright yellow oval or round inflorescences. Flowering occurs in late summer, after which time the flower spikes age and turn to brown and then grey, and develop up to 70 follicles. It occurs in the vicinity of Kalbarri, Western Australia. Found on sandy soils, the plant serves as a pollinator for a variety of bird and animal species. Description ''Banksia lindleyana'' grows as a shrub up to tall. Young branches are densely felted with hairs, but these are lost with age, and eventually replaced with a deeply fissured grey bark. The leaves are low and narrow (4 to 13 cm long but only 0.4 to 1.2 cm wide), with serrated edges and a blunt apex; like the young branches, young leaves are felted with hairs, but these are lost with ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Caleyi
''Banksia caleyi'', commonly known as Caley's banksia or red lantern banksia, is a species of woody shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia. It generally grows as a dense shrub up to 2 m (7 ft) tall, has serrated leaves and red, pendent (hanging) inflorescences which are generally hidden in the foliage. First described by Scottish naturalist Robert Brown in 1830, ''Banksia caleyi'' was named in honour of the English botanist George Caley. No subspecies are recognised. It is one of three or four related species with hanging inflorescences, which is an unusual feature within the genus. Found south and east of the Stirling Ranges through to the vicinity of Jerramungup, ''Banksia caleyi'' grows in a habitat marked by periodic bushfires. Plants are killed by fire and regenerate by seed afterwards. The species was classified as "Not Threatened" under the Wildlife Conservation Act of Western Australia. In contrast to most other Western Australian banksia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Lemanniana
''Banksia lemanniana'', the yellow lantern banksia or Lemann's banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, native to Western Australia. It generally grows as an open woody shrub or small tree to high, with stiff serrated leaves and unusual hanging inflorescences. Flowering occurs over summer, the greenish buds developing into oval flower spikes before turning grey and developing the characteristic large woody follicles. It occurs within and just east of the Fitzgerald River National Park on the southern coast of the state. ''B. lemanniana'' is killed by bushfire and regenerates from seed. Described by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in 1856, ''Banksia lemanniana'' was named in honour of English botanist Charles Morgan Lemann. It is one of three or four related species all with pendent inflorescences, which is an unusual feature of banksias. No subspecies are recognised. ''Banksia lemanniana'' is classified as Not Threatened under the Wildlife Conserva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Praemorsa
''Banksia praemorsa'', commonly known as the cut-leaf banksia, is a species of shrub or tree in the plant genus ''Banksia''. It occurs in a few isolated populations on the south coast of Western Australia between Albany and Cape Riche. Description ''Banksia praemorsa'' grows as a shrub to with a relatively thick sturdy trunk that branches quite close to the ground. Occasionally specimens can be up to with a trunk diameter of . The bark is rough and flaky. Flowering occurs from August to November; the flower spikes arise from the ends of small lateral branches and thus, despite being terminal, are obscured by foliage. Up to high, they are composed of hundreds of individual flowers growing out of a vertical woody spike. Taxonomy English plantsman and botanical artist Henry Cranke Andrews described this species from a cultivated specimen in the conservatory of the Clapham Collection in July 1802. A specimen that flowered at Kew Gardens the same year was selected as the neotype ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Baxteri
''Banksia baxteri'', commonly known as Baxter's banksia or bird's nest banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has greyish brown bark, hairy stems, deeply serrated leaves with triangular lobes and lemon-yellow flowers in an oval flower spike that grows on the end of branches. Description ''Banksia baxteri'' is an erect shrub that typically groups to a height of and that does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets and leaves are densely covered with woolly, white hairs when young. The leaves are wedge-shaped, long and wide in outline on a petiole long, divided to the midlobe with between four and seven triangular lobes on each side surrounded by V-shaped spaces. The flowers are arranged in a broad oval inflorescence wide on the ends of branches, the individual flowers lemon-yellow with a perianth long and the pistil long. Flowering occurs from December to May but mainly from January to March. Only a few follicles long, high and wide deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Speciosa
''Banksia speciosa'', commonly known as the showy banksia, is a species of large shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae. It is found on the south coast of Western Australia between Hopetoun (33°57′ S) and the Great Australian Bight (approximately 33° S 130° E), growing on white or grey sand in shrubland. Reaching up to in height, it is a single-stemmed plant that has thin leaves with prominent triangular "teeth" along each margin, which are long and wide. The prominent cream-yellow flower spikes known as inflorescences appear throughout the year. As they age they develop up to 20 follicles each that store seeds until opened by fire. Though widely occurring, the species is highly sensitive to dieback and large populations of plants have succumbed to the disease. Collected and described by Robert Brown in the early 19th century, ''B. speciosa'' is classified in the series ''Banksia'' within the genus. Its closest relative is '' B. baxteri''. ''B. sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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