Bentham's taxonomic arrangement of Dryandra
George Bentham's taxonomic arrangement of Dryandra (now B. ser. Dryandra) was published in 1870, in Volume 5 of Bentham's Flora Australiensis.[1] A substantial improvement on the previous arrangement, it would stand for over a century. It was eventually replaced by the 1996 arrangement of Alex George.[2]
Background
B. ser. Dryandra is a taxonomic series of 94 species within the plant genus Banksia. Until 2007 it was treated as a separate genus, under the name Dryandra. Dryandra was first published in 1810 by Robert Brown. Initially 13 species were recognised, but many new species were discovered over the next sixty years, and by the time Bentham published Flora Australiensis 47 species and two varieties were recognised.
Bentham's arrangement
George Bentham's 1870 taxonomic arrangement of Dryandra may be summarised as follows:
- Genus Dryandra (now Banksia ser. Dryandra)
- Section Eudryandra
- Series Armatæ
- D. quercifolia
- D. praemorsa
- D. cuneata
- D. falcata
- D. almata
- D. longifolia
- D. Fraseri
- Series Floribundæ
- D. florabunda
- D. carduacea
- D. carlinoides
- D. polycephala
- D. Kippistiana
- Series Concinnæ
- D. squarrosa
- D. serra
- D. concinna
- D. foliolata
- Series Formosæ
- D. stupposa
- D. nobilis
- D. nucronulata
- D. formosa
- D. baxteri
- Series Niveæ
- D. nivea
- D. arctotidis
- D. nana
- D. Preissii
- Series Obvallatæ
- D. sclerophylla
- D. pulchella
- D. plumosa
- D. seneciifolia
- D. vestita
- D. cirsioides
- D. Hewardiana
- D. patens
- D. conferta
- D. horrida
- D. serratuloides
- D. comosa
- Series Gymnocephalæ
- D. Shuttleworthiana
- D. speciosa
- D. tridentata
- Series Armatæ
- Section Aphragma
- D. tenuifolia
- D. proteoides
- D. runcinata
- D. obtusa
- D. bipinnatifida
- D. pteridifolia
- D. calophylla
- Section Eudryandra
References
- ^ Bentham, George (1870). "Dryandra". Flora Australiensis. Vol. Volume 5: Myoporineae to Proteaceae. London: L. Reeve & Co. pp. 562–584.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ George, Alex S. (1996). "New taxa and a new infragenetic classification in Dryandra R.Br. (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae)". Nuytsia. 10 (3): 313–408.