Banksia armata var. armata

taxobox
name = "Banksia armata" var. "armata"


regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
ordo = Proteales
familia = Proteaceae
genus = "Banksia"
subgenus = "Banksia" subg. "Banksia"
series = "Banksia" ser. "Dryandra"
species = "B. armata"
variety = "B. armata" var. "armata"
trinomial = "Banksia armata" (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele var. "armata"|

"Banksia armata" var. "armata" is a variety of shrub endemic to Western Australia.

Description

"B. armata" var. "armata" grows as a spreading shrub, up to three metres in height, with deeply serrated leaves and a bright yellow inflorescence.cite journal | first = Alex S. | last = George | year = 1996 | title = New taxa and a new infrageneric classification in "Dryandra" | journal = Nuytsia | volume = 10 | issue = 2 | pages = 313–408] Flora of Australia Online | name = "Dryandra armata" R.Br. var "armata" | id = 3538] cite book | author = Cavanagh, Tony and Margaret Pieroni | year = 2006 | title = The Dryandras | publisher = Melbourne: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria); Perth: Wildflower Society of Western Australia | id = ISBN 1-876473-54-1]

Distribution and habitat

It occurs throughout much of the south-west. The main distribution is between Perth and Albany, but it also occurs near Mount Lesueur in the north. It grows amongst open woodland or heath, on rocky soils.FloraBase | name = "Dryandra armata" R.Br. var. "armata" | id = 16666]

Taxonomy

Specimens of "B. armata" were first collected at King George Sound in December 1801 by Robert Brown. Brown published a description of the species in 1810, naming it "Dryandra armata"; the specific epithet is from the Latin "armatus" ("armed") in reference to the sharply serrated leaves. Thirty years later, John Lindley published a purported new species, which he named "Dryandra favosa".A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony] This was accepted as a species by Carl Meissner in 1845,cite book | first = Carl | last = Meissner | year = 1845 | chapter = Dryandra | editor = Lehmann, Johann | title = Plantae Preissianae | publisher = Meissner | location = Hamburg | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37257090&UC=o | accessdate = 2007-09-27] but declared a taxonomic synonym of "D. armata" by him in 1856,cite book | first = Carl | last = Meissner | year = 1856 | chapter = Dryandra | editor = de Candolle, A. P. | title = Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37257110&UC=o | accessdate = 2007-09-14] and the latter view was taken by George Bentham his 1870 "Flora Australiensis".cite encyclopedia | author = Bentham, George | year = 1870 | title = Banksia | encyclopedia = Flora Australiensis | volume = Volume 5: Myoporineae to Proteaceae | pages = 541–562 | location = London | publisher = L. Reeve & Co.] In 1996, Alex George published "D. armata" var. "ignicida", thereby invoking the autonym "D. armata" var."armata". George also refined the synonymy of "D. favosa" to this subspecies. In 2007, all "Dryandra" species were transferred to "Banksia" by Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele;cite journal | author = Mast, Austin R. and Kevin Thiele | year = 2007 | title = The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae) | journal = Australian Systematic Botany | volume = 20 | pages = 63–71 | doi = 10.1071/SB06016] hence the current name of this variety is "Banksia armata" (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele var. "armata".APNI | name = "Banksia armata" (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele var. "armata" | id = 269882]

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