Banksia dryandroides
| Dryandra-leaved Banksia | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Banksia |
| Species: | B. dryandroides |
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Banksia dryandroides Baxter ex Sweet |
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Banksia dryandroides, the Dryandra-leaved Banksia, is a species of small shrub in the plant genus Banksia. The Noongar peoples know the tree as Manyat. It occurs in shrubland, coastal heath and woodland on the south coast of Western Australia between Two Peoples Bay and Cheyne Bay. The species is placed alone in series B. ser. Dryandroideae.
Banksia dryandroides is a much-branched spreading shrub to 1 metre (4 ft) high, and is nonlignotuberous. The stems are covered with a fine reddish hair, and the fernlike leaves are 5–17 cm (2–7 in) long and 0.7–1.5 cm in width. The squat cylindrical inflorescences appear from October to January and are 2–3 cm (1 in) high. They are pale brownish in colour with hooked pistils. The flowers remain on the ageing spikes as up to 25 follicles develop. These measure 1.5–3 cm (0.6-1.2 in) long, 0.5–1.2 cm (0.2-0.5 in) high, and 0.3–0.9 cm wide, covered in fine hairs below, and smooth above.
Specimens of B. dryandroides were first collected in 1823 from the vicinity of King George Sound by William Baxter, a private plant collector who collected plant specimens and seed on behalf of British nurseries. Baxter sent to Clapton Nursery a package of Banksia seed labelled "Dryandroides", and this was successfully germinated. The species became part of "the collection of Mr Mackay, at Clapton", before being procured for "the superb collection of the Comtesse de Vandes', at Bayswater", where it flowered in cultivation for the first time. There it was seen by Robert Sweet, who in 1826 listed it under the unpublished manuscript name "Banksia dryandroides" as having been in cultivation in British gardens since 1824. Two years later, Sweet published a formal description of the species in his Flora Australasica, accompanied by a hand-coloured engraving by Edwin Dalton Smith. Thus B. dryandroides became the first published of the 18 Banksia species discovered by Baxter; the remaining 17 would be published in Robert Brown's 1830 Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae, based on Baxter's specimen sheets.
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