Bentham's Taxonomic Arrangement of Banksia - Bentham's Arrangement

Bentham's Arrangement

As Bentham never visited Australia, he only had access to preserved specimens. Thus he was unable to distinguish between some similar pairs of species, and so reduced the number of species to 46. He retained Isostylis, but replaced Meissner's four series by four sections based on leaf, style and pollen-presenter characters. Two of these, Oncostylis and Eubanksia, were reasonably well-defined and homogeneous; section Orthostylis was somewhat heterogeneous; section Cyrtostylis was erected to contain the species that did not belong in the other sections, and was therefore highly heterogeneous.

George Bentham's 1870 taxonomic arrangement of Banksia may be summarised as follows:

Banksia

B. sect. Oncostylis

B. pulchella

B. Meissneri

B. nutans

B. sphærocarpa

B. sphaerocarpa var. glabrescens (now B. incana)

B. sphaerocarpa var. latifolia (now B. sphaerocarpa var. sphaerocarpa)

B. tricuspis

B. occidentalis

B. littoralis

B. ericifolia

B. spinulosa

B. collina (now B. spinulosa var. collina)

B. verticillata

B. dryandroides

B. Brownii

B. sect. Cyrtostylis

B. attenuata

B. media

B. Solandri

B. Goodii

B. petiolaris

B. repens

B. prostrata (now B. gardneri)

B. grandis

B. quercifolia

B. quercifolia var. integrifolia (now B. oreophila)

B. Baueri

B. sect. Eubanksia

B. marginata

B. integrifolia

B. dentata

B. sect. Orthostylis

B. latifolia (now B. robur)

B. serrata

B. æmula

B. ornata

B. coccinea

B. sceptrum

B. Menziesii

B. lævigata

B. Hookeriana

B. prionotes

B. Victoriæ

B. speciosa

B. Baxteri

B. marcescens (now B. praemorsa)

B. Lemanniana

B. Caleyi

B. Lindleyana

B. elegans

B. Candolleana

B. sect. Isostylis

B. ilicifolia

B. ilicifolia var. integrifolia (now B. ilicifolia)