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Taxon: Grevillea banksii R. Br.

Genus: Grevillea
Family: Proteaceae.
Nomen number: 17976
Place of publication: Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10:176. 1810 (Nat. order Proteac.)
Name verified on: 09-Aug-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-May-2011
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED AS A STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
HI*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • Banks's grevillea   (Source: Proteas 64. 1993) – English
  • byfield-waratah   (Source: F Aust ) – English
  • dwarf silky-oak   (Source: F Aust ) – English
  • Forster's grevillea   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  • kahili-flower   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  • red silky-oak   (Source: Proteas 64. 1993) – English
  • red-flower silky-oak   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Queensland [e.]

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Queensland Agric. J. 105:180.
  • Bailey, F. M. 1899–1905. The Queensland flora.
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
  • Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
  • Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • Matthews, L. 1993. Proteas of the world. 64.
  • McGillivray, D. J. 1993. Grevillea, Proteaceae. 49.
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
  • Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [mentions].
  • Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
More:

Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Grevillea banksii R. Br.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Grevillea banksii cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?17976 (22 May 2013)

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