Banksia
See also: banksia
Translingual
Etymology
From English Banks (“a surname”) + -ia.
Named after the English botanist Joseph Banks, who collected the first specimens of the genus on his 1770 voyage to Australia with James Cook. First published in 1782 by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger. Earlier, in 1775, Forster & Forster had proposed the name Banksia for the genus now called Pimelia, but Linnaeus' use was accepted.
Proper noun
Banksia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Proteaceae – the banksias, with characteristic flower spikes and fruiting cones and heads, native to Australia.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Proteales - order; Proteaceae - family; Grevilleoideae - subfamily; Banksieae - tribe; Banksiinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Banksia subg. Banksia, Banksia subg. Isostylis - subgenera
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References
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- Banksia at USDA Plants database
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