Banksia Ser. Abietinae - According To George

According To George

In 1981, Alex George published a thorough revision of Banksia in his classic monograph The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). He reinstated B. ser. Abietinae, placing it within B. sect. Oncostylis, and defining it as containing only those species with entire, linear leaves with revolute margins, and having roughly spherical inflorescences. Thus three species with elongate cylindrical inflorescences were moved into separate series.

The placement and circumscription of B. ser. Abietinae in George's taxonomic arrangement of Banksia may be summarised as follows:

Banksia

B. subg. Banksia

B. sect. Banksia (9 series, 50 species, 9 subspecies, 3 varieties)

B. sect. Coccinea (1 species)

B. sect. Oncostylis

B. ser. Spicigerae (7 species, 2 subspecies, 4 varieties)

B. ser. Tricuspidae (1 species)

B. ser. Dryandroideae (1 species)

B. ser. Abietinae

B. sphaerocarpa

B. s. var. sphaerocarpa

B. s. var. caesia

B. s. var. dolichostyla

B. micrantha

B. grossa

B. telmatiaea

B. leptophylla

B. l. var. leptophylla

B. l. var. melletica

B. lanata

B. scabrella

B. violacea

B. incana

B. laricina

B. pulchella

B. meisneri

B. m. subsp. meisneri

B. m. subsp. ascendens

B. nutans

B. n. var. nutans

B. n. var. cernuella

B. subg. Isostylis (3 species)