Banksia baueri
| Woolly Banksia | |
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| Banksia baueri inflorescence | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Banksia |
| Subgenus: | Banksia subg. Banksia |
| Section: | Banksia sect. Banksia |
| Series: |
Banksia ser. Bauerinae A.S.George |
| Species: | B. baueri |
| Binomial name | |
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Banksia baueri R.Br. |
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The woolly banksia (Banksia baueri) is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia. It occurs in southwest Western Australia north and east of Albany. It has a distinctively large and hairy looking inflorescence which can be 17 cm high and up to 13 cm wide.
It is placed alone in series Banksia ser. Bauerinae.
Banksia baueri grows as a many-branched spreading shrub reaching 0.5 to 2 m (1.6 to 6.6 ft) high, and 3 m (9.8 ft) wide. Its bark is thin and grey with long fissures, while new growth is covered in fine pale brown fur. New growth occurs in summer. The inflorescence develops over 5–6 months, and can reach 12–13 cm (~7 in) in diameter, and 17 cm high.
Robert Brown described Banksia baueri in 1830, after it had been collected by William Baxter at King Georges Sound in 1829. It was named for the brothers Austrian botanical artists Franz and Ferdinand Bauer, Ferdinand having travelled with Brown on his 1801-05 voyage.
Under Brown's taxonomic arrangement, B. baueri was placed in subgenus Banksia verae, the "True Banksias", because the inflorescence is a typical Banksia flower spike. Banksia verae was renamed Eubanksia by Stephan Endlicher in 1847, and demoted to sectional rank by Carl Meissner in his 1856 classification. Meissner further divided Eubanksia into four series, with B. baueri placed in series Quercinae on the basis of its toothed leaves. When George Bentham published his 1870 arrangement in Flora Australiensis, he discarded Meissner's series, replacing them with four sections. B. baueri was placed in Cyrtostylis, a heterogeneous section containing 13 species that did not readily fit elsewhere. This arrangement would stand for over a century.
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