Banksia ser. Crocinae
| Banksia ser. Crocinae | |
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| Banksia prionotes, the type species of B. ser. Crocinae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Banksia |
| Subgenus: | Banksia |
| Section: | Banksia |
| Series: |
Banksia ser. Crocinae A.S.George |
| Species | |
B. prionotes
B. victoriae
B. hookeriana
B. burdettii
Banksia ser. Crocinae is a taxonomic series (botany) in the genus Banksia. It consists of four closely related species, all of which are endemic to Western Australia; namely B. prionotes (Acorn Banksia), B. burdettii (Burdett's Banksia), B. hookeriana (Hooker's Banksia) and B. victoriae (Woolly Orange Banksia). The series was first published by Alex George in 1981, but discarded by Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges in 1996, and finally reinstated by George in 1999. Recent cladistic analyses suggest that it is monophyletic or nearly so.
B. ser. Banksia originated in the 1981 arrangement of George, published in his classic monograph The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). George grouped the four species into a series on the grounds that they are "remarkably similar especially in floral morphology", giving the series the name B. ser. Crocinae from the Latin crocinus ("rich orange"), in reference to the bright orange inflorescences. He also remarked that "the series is probably derived from the Orthostylis, which can in hingsight be read as an admission of paraphyly.
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