Banksia vestita
| Summer Dryandra | |
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| flowering at Charles Gardner Nature Reserve | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Banksia |
| Species: | B. vestita |
| Binomial name | |
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Banksia vestita (Kippist ex Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele |
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| Synonyms | |
Dryandra vestita Kippist ex Meisn.
Banksia vestita, commonly known as Summer Dryandra, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia. It was known as Dryandra vestita until 2007.
B. vestita grows as a shrub up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) high. It has hairy stems, and pinnatifid leaves 8 to 15 centimetres (3.1 to 5.9 in) long and 7 to 13 millimetres (0.28 to 0.51 in) wide, with four to twelve teeth on each side. Flowers are golden yellow, and occur in a dome-shaped inflorescence up to 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) across, typically containing thirty to forty flowers.
The species was first collected by James Drummond in the 1840s, from a location described simply as "south-western W.A." Richard Kippist subsequently named and formally described the species, and Kippist's description was published in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. It was placed in the genus Dryandra, and given the specific name "vestita" from the Latin vestitus ("clothed"), in reference to the hairy bracts that cover the lower parts of new shoots. Thus its name was for a time Dryandra vestita Kippist ex Meisn.
Otto Kuntze transferred Dryandra to Josephia in 1890, republishing D. vestita as Josephia vestita (Kippist ex Meisn.) Kuntze, but his changes were not accepted by the wider scientific community. In 1999, Alex George placed the species in Dryandra subgenus Dryandra, series Gymnocephalae.
Early in 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all Dryandra taxa to Banksia. The current name for this species is therefore Banksia vestita (Kippist ex Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele. As an interim measure, Mast and Thiele placed all but one Dryandra taxon in Banksia ser. Dryandra.
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