Banksia
See also: banksia
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Banksia 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
- For species see
References edit
Banksia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Banksia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Banksia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Banksia at USDA Plants database
