Banksia
See also: banksia
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editBanksia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Proteaceae – banksias, with characteristic flower spikes and fruiting cones and heads, native to Australia.
Hypernyms
edit- (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
edit- (genus): Banksia subg. Banksia, Banksia subg. Isostylis - subgenera
- For species see Banksia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Descendants
edit- → Russian: ба́нксия (bánksija)
References
edit- Banksia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Banksia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Banksia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Banksia at USDA Plants database