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Banksia Ser. Quercinae
''Banksia'' ser. ''Quercinae'' is a valid botanic name for a series of ''Banksia''. First published by Carl Meissner in 1856, the name has had three circumscriptions. According to Meissner ''B.'' ser. ''Quercinae'' was first published in 1856, in Carl Meissner's chapter on the Proteaceae in A. P. de Candolle's ''Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis''. It was one of four series into which the subgenus ''Eubanksia'' was divided. These four series were defined in terms of leaf characters, with series ''Quercinae'' containing the species with strongly dentate, cuneate to obovate leaves. As they were defined on leaf characters alone, all of Meissner's series were highly heterogeneous. The placement and circumscription of ''B.'' ser. ''Quercinae'' in Meissner's arrangement may be summarised as follows: :''Banksia'' :: ''B.'' sect. ''Eubanksia'' ::: ''B.'' ser. ''Abietinae'' (8 species, 1 variety) ::: ''B.'' ser. ''Salicinae'' (23 species, 8 varie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Quercifolia
''Banksia quercifolia'', commonly known as the oak-leaved banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to the southwestern coast of Western Australia. It has smooth, greenish bark, wavy, wedge-shaped, serrated leaves, yellow, orange or brown flowers in cylindrical spikes, followed by broadly linear follicles surrounded by the remains of the flowers. Description ''Banksia quercifolia'' is a shrub that typically that grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth, greenish brown bark that becomes lightly tessellated and grey as it ages. It has wavy, serrated, narrow wedge-shaped leaves long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in a cylindrical spike long and wide when the flowers open. The flowers are yellow, orange or brown with the perianth long and a stiff, gently curved pistil long. Flowering occurs from March to November and up to thirty-five follicles develop in each head surrounded by the remains of the flowers. The follicles a ... [...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] |
Flora Australiensis
''Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian Territory'', more commonly referred to as ''Flora Australiensis'', and also known by its standard abbreviation ''Fl. Austral.'', is a seven-volume flora of Australia published between 1863 and 1878 by George Bentham, with the assistance of Ferdinand von Mueller. It was one of the famous Kew series of colonial floras, and the first flora of any large continental area that had ever been finished. In total the flora included descriptions of 8125 species.Orchard, A. E. 1999. Introduction. In A. E. Orchard, ed. ''Flora of Australia - Volume 1'', 2nd edition pp 1-9. Australian Biological Resources Study Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, loaning the entire collection of the National Herbarium of Victoria to Bentham over the course of several years. Mueller had been dissuaded from preparing a flora from Australia while in Australia by Bentham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentham's Taxonomic Arrangement Of Banksia
George Bentham's taxonomic arrangement of ''Banksia'' was published in 1870, in Volume 5 of Bentham's ''Flora Australiensis''. A substantial improvement on the previous arrangement, it would stand for over a century. It was eventually replaced by Alex George's 1981 arrangement, published in his classic monograph '' The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)''. Background ''Banksia'' is a genus of around 80 species in the plant family Proteaceae. An iconic Australian wildflower and popular garden plant, they are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting "cones". They grow in forms varying from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 35 metres tall, and occur in all but the most arid areas of Australia. As heavy producers of nectar, they are important sources of food for nectariferous animals such as honeyeaters and honey possum, and they are of economic importance to the nursery and cut flower industries. However they are seriously threatened by a number of proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Solandri
''Banksia solandri'', commonly known as Stirling Range banksia, is a species of large shrub in the plant genus ''Banksia''. It occurs only within the Stirling Range in southwest Western Australia. Its scientific name honours the botanist Daniel Solander, one of the first collectors of ''Banksia''. Description It is a woody shrub to 4 m (13 ft) high with large, broad serrate leaves and thick finely-furred stems. Flowering is in spring and early summer, the inflorescences are fawn in colour. Taxonomy ''B. solandri'' was first collected by William Baxter from the vicinity of King George Sound, and published by Robert Brown in his 1830 ''Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae''. The name honors Daniel Solander, a student of Carl Linnaeus who accompanied Joseph Banks on the first voyage of James Cook, who collected the first specimens of ''Banksia'' to be scientifically described. In 1847 it was recollected from Mondurup in the Stirling Ranges by Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Repens
''Banksia repens'', the creeping banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus ''Banksia''. It occurs on the south coast of Western Australia from D'Entrecasteaux National Park in the west to Mount Ragged in the east. Seeds do not require any treatment, and take 29 to 56 days to germinate. Description ''Banksia repens'' is a prostrate shrub with horizontal stems covered in a fine velvety fur which spread underground. The large leathery upright leaves arise vertically on petioles 5–15 cm (2–6 in) high. They are 18 to 40 cm (7–16 in) in length and 18 cm (7 in) wide. They are intricately lobed with smaller lobes. Appearing from October to November, the cylindrical inflorescences arise well beyond the leaves and are variable shades of orange, tan and pinkish shades in overall colour and range from 6 to 10 cm (2.4–4 in) high. As the flower spikes age, they fade to a greyish colour, the old flowers persisting. It is lignotuberous, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Goodii
''Banksia goodii'', commonly known as Good's banksia, is a species of prostrate shrub that is Endemism, endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It has densely hairy stems, wavy, oblong to egg-shaped leaves with irregularly serrated margins, rusty-brown flowers and hairy fruit. It grows in low forest and woodland near Albany, Western Australia, Albany and is listed as "endangered". Description Good's banksia grows as a low shrub, either prostrate or with stems up to high, and forms a lignotuber. The stems and leaves are densely hairy and new growth is a striking purple colour. The leaves are dark green with a prominent yellow midrib and are held erect. They are wavy, oblong to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, coarsely and irregularly serrated along their edges. The flower spikes are long with prominent, hairy Bract#Involucral bracts, involucral bracts at the base of the head. The flowers are rusty brown with cream-coloured Style (botany) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Gardneri
''Banksia gardneri'', commonly known as prostrate banksia, is a species of prostrate shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has pinnatipartite or serrated leaves, usually rusty brown flowers, and up to twenty-five elliptical follicles in each fruiting head. It occurs along the west part of the south coast of the state. Description ''Banksia gardneri'' is a prostrate shrub that forms a lignotuber and has hairy stems that usually lie on the surface. Its leaves are pinnatipartite or serrated, long and wide on a petiole long, the lobes on the sides triangular to oblong. The flowers are borne on a head long and wide when the flowers open, with hairy involucral bracts long at the base of the head. The flowers are usually rusty brown with a cream-coloured style. The perianth is long and the pistil long. Flowering occurs from April to November and up to twenty-five densely hairy, elliptical follicles long, high and wide form in each head. Taxonomy and naming Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Dentata
''Banksia dentata'', commonly known as the tropical banksia, is a species of tree in the genus ''Banksia''. It occurs across northern Australia, southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands. Growing as a gnarled tree to high, it has large green leaves up to long with dentate (toothed) margins. The cylindrical yellow inflorescences (flower spikes), up to high, appear over the cooler months, attracting various species of honeyeaters, sunbirds, the sugar glider and a variety of insects. Flowers fall off the ageing spikes, which swell and develop follicles containing up to two viable seeds each. ''Banksia dentata'' is one of four ''Banksia'' species collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, and one of the four species published in 1782 as part of Carolus Linnaeus the Younger's original description of ''Banksia''. Within the genus, it is classified in the series ''Salicinae'', a group of species from Australia's eastern states. Genetic studies show it is a basal member (early offsh ... [...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 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] |
