Banksia strictifolia

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Banksia
Subgenus:	Banksia subg. Banksia
Series:	Banksia ser. Dryandra
Species:	B. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of Flowering plants whose Seed typically has two embryonic leaves or Cotyledons There Proteales is the Botanical name of an order of Flowering plants. Proteaceae is a family of Flowering plants. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it is a fairly large family with around 80 genera Banksia is a Genus of around 170 Species in the Plant family Proteaceae. Banksia subg Banksia is a valid Botanic name for a Subgenus of Banksia. strictifolia

Binomial name

Banksia strictifolia
A.R.Mast and K.R.Thiele

Banksia strictifolia is a shrub endemic to Western Australia. Austin R Mast is a research botanist Born in 1972 he obtained a Ph Kevin R Thiele is Curator of the Western Australian Herbarium. A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent.

It was known as Dryandra stricta until 2007, when all Dryandra species were transferred to Banksia by Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele. Banksia is a Genus of around 170 Species in the Plant family Proteaceae. Austin R Mast is a research botanist Born in 1972 he obtained a Ph Kevin R Thiele is Curator of the Western Australian Herbarium. As the name Banksia stricta had already been published in reference to the plant now known as Pimelea stricta, Mast and Thiele had to choose a new specific epithet. Their choice, "strictifolia", maintains the original names' use of the Greek strictus ("straight and crowded"), and adds use of the Latin folius ("leaf"); the name refers to the straight leaves densely packed on the branches. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.

References

Cavanagh, Tony and Margaret Pieroni (2006). The Dryandras. Melbourne: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria); Perth: Wildflower Society of Western Australia. ISBN 1-876473-54-1.
Mast, Austin R. and Kevin Thiele (2007). "The transfer of Dryandra R. Br. to Banksia L. f. (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany 20: 63–71. doi:10.1071/SB06016. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document.
Dryandra stricta. FloraBase. FloraBase is a public access web-based database of the Flora of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia. The Department of Environment and Conservation is a department of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for implementing the state's conservation and environment

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