- Banksia audax
taxobox
name = Banksia audax
image_caption = "B. audax",
east of Yellowdyne
regnum =Plantae
unranked_divisio =Angiosperms
unranked_classis =Eudicots
ordo =Proteales
familia =Proteaceae
genus = "Banksia "
species = "B. audax"
binomial = Banksia audax
binomial_authority = C.A.Gardner|"Banksia audax" is a
species ofshrub in theplant genus "Banksia ". It occurs over a large area in the central south ofWestern Australia Description
It is an openly branched
's flower spike is golden orange, ovoid, around five centimetres in diameter.lignotuber ous shrub around one metre tall, with grey, fizzured bark. Leaves are wedge-shaped, 2–7 centimetres long, 8–22 millimetres wide, with triangular serrations along the margins. Flowers occur in Banksia's characteristic "flower spike", aninflorescence made up of hundreds of pairs of flowers densely packed in a spiral around a woody axis. "B. audax"Distribution and habitat
"B. audax" occurs from near the town of Southern Cross, south almost to the coast. It occurs amongst
heath and inmallee communities, in sandy yellow loam.Taxonomy
"B. audax" was first discovered by
Charles Gardner in 1926, and published by him in 1928. Gardner gave it the specific name "audax", meaning "bold" inLatin , in recognition of its "boldness" in growing so far inland. It belongs to subgenus "Banksia", section "Banksia", series "Cyrtostylis". It has no close relatives; "B. benthamiana" (Bentham's Banksia) and "B. laevigata" (Tennis Ball Banksia) are taxonomically closest to it, but these are both larger shrubs without lignotubers.References
*The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)
*cite encyclopedia | author = George, Alex | year = 1999 | editor = Wilson, Annette | title = Flora of Australia | volume = 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra | pages = 175–251 | publisher =CSIRO Publishing /Australian Biological Resources Study | id=ISBN 0-643-06454-0
*The Banksia AtlasExternal links
*Flora of Australia Online|name=Banksia audax|id=3438
*FloraBase|name=Banksia audax|id=1801
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