- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›proteas, lotuses, planes, and allies
- ›Protea family
- ›Paired Proteas
- ›Banksieae
- ›Banksiinae
Banksias
Banksia
Banksia is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting "cones" and heads. Banksias range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres tall. They are found in a wide variety of landscapes; sclerophyll forest, (occasionally) rainforest, shrubland, and some more arid landscapes, though not in Australia's deserts.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Silver Banksia
speciesBanksia marginata
Coastal Banksia
speciesBanksia integrifolia
Old man banksia
speciesBanksia serrata
Hairpin Banksia
speciesBanksia spinulosa
Heath-leaved banksia
speciesBanksia ericifolia
Parrot Bush
speciesBanksia sessilis
Rusty Banksia
speciesBanksia oblongifolia
Desert Banksia
speciesBanksia ornata
Swamp Banksia
speciesBanksia robur
Giant Banksia
speciesBanksia grandis
Candlestick Banksia
speciesBanksia attenuata
Firewood Banksia
speciesBanksia menziesii
Wallum banksia
speciesBanksia aemula
Banksia cunninghamii
speciesBanksia cunninghamii
couch honeypot
speciesBanksia dallanneyi
Hill Banksia
speciesBanksia collina
prickly dryandra
speciesBanksia armata
acorn banksia
speciesBanksia prionotes
Scarlet Banksia
speciesBanksia coccinea
Holly-Leaved Banksia
speciesBanksia ilicifolia
cut-leaf banksia
speciesBanksia praemorsa
Showy Banksia
speciesBanksia speciosa
round-fruit banksia
speciesBanksia sphaerocarpa
Swamp Banksia
speciesBanksia littoralis
Pingle
speciesBanksia squarrosa
Showy Dryandra
speciesBanksia formosa
Prostrate Banksia
speciesBanksia gardneri
Banksia paludosa
speciesBanksia paludosa
Oak-Leaved Banksia
speciesBanksia quercifolia
New England Banksia
speciesBanksia neoanglica
Tropical Banksia
speciesBanksia dentata
Baxters Banksia
speciesBanksia baxteri
Fraser's Banksia
speciesBanksia fraseri
Creeping Banksia
speciesBanksia repens
golden dryandra
speciesBanksia nobilis
Ashby's banksia
speciesBanksia ashbyi
Southern Plains Banksia
speciesBanksia media
Yellow Lantern Banksia
speciesBanksia lemanniana
Urchin Dryandra
speciesBanksia undata
Banksia bipinnatifida
speciesBanksia bipinnatifida
Honeypot Dryandra
speciesBanksia nivea
Woolly Banksia
speciesBanksia baueri
Rock Banksia
speciesBanksia saxicola
Hooker's Banksia
speciesBanksia hookeriana
oak-leaved dryandra
speciesBanksia heliantha
Banksia blechnifolia
speciesBanksia blechnifolia
Wedge-leaved Dryandra
speciesBanksia obovata
Prickly Dryandra
speciesBanksia falcata
mountain banksia
speciesBanksia oreophila
Northern Banksia
speciesBanksia aquilonia
pink dryandra
speciesBanksia carlinoides
Drummond's Dryandra
speciesBanksia drummondii
Banksia arctotidis
speciesBanksia arctotidis
Banksia seminuda
speciesBanksia seminuda
sceptre banksia
speciesBanksia sceptrum
Nodding Banksia
speciesBanksia nutans
Stirling Range Banksia
speciesBanksia solandri
Mountain Banksia
speciesBanksia canei
Banksia leptophylla
speciesBanksia leptophylla
Thistle Dryandra
speciesBanksia cirsioides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Banksia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64518.