''Banksia'' sect. ''Banksia'' is one of four sections of ''
Banksia
''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 i ...
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subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Banksia''. It contains those species of subgenus ''Banksia'' with straight or sometimes curved but not hooked
style
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* Architectural style, the features that make a building or structure historically identifiable
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s. These species all have cylindrical inflorescences and usually exhibit a bottom-up sequence of flower
anthesis
Anthesis is the period during which a flower is fully open and functional. It may also refer to the onset of that period.
The onset of anthesis is spectacular in some species. In ''Banksia'' species, for example, anthesis involves the extension ...
. It is a widely distributed section, with taxa occurring in both the south west and east coastal distributions of the genus.
''Banksia'' sect. ''Banksia'' is further divided into nine series:
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''Salicinae'' is one of the most primitive ''Banksia'' series; it contains 11 species, all highly variable;
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''Grandes'' contains 2 species whose leaves have large prominent triangular lobes;
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''Banksia'' contains 8 species with smooth or toothed leaves;
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''Crocinae'' contains 4 species with woolly orange flowers;
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''Prostratae'' contains 6 species that grow as
prostrate shrub
A prostrate shrub is a woody plant, most of the branches of which lie upon or just above the ground, rather than being held erect as are the branches of most trees and shrubs.
Background
Prostration may occur because the supporting tissues in ste ...
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''Cyrtostylis'' contains 13 species with unusually slender flowers;
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''Tetragonae'' contains 3 species whose flower spikes hang down;
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''Bauerinae'' contains a single species ''
Banksia baueri'';
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''Quercinae'' contains 2 species that differ from other species in the section by some unusual anatomical features of their flowers, and their top-down sequence of anthesis.
See also
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Taxonomy of Banksia
As with other flowering plants, the taxonomy of ''Banksia'' has traditionally been based on anatomical and morphological properties of the ''Banksia'' flower, fruiting structure and seed, along with secondary characteristics such as leaf struc ...
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