Banksia neoanglica

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Banksia neoanglica (A.S.George) Stimpson & J.J.Bruhl

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Banksia cunninghamii subsp. A (taxonomic synonym)
Banksia spinulosa var. neoanglica A.S.George (basionym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Banksia spinulosa var. cunninghamii (Sieber ex Rchb.) A.S.George (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), ANBG_2019 (1), Clarke_2009 (9), Clarke_2015 (3), He_2011 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (21), NSWFRD_2014 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (57), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 139 records in 16 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3); resprouts (6) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; He_2011; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 102.5 mm (85-120 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 40 mm (35-45 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 59 mm (43-75 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.26 cm (0.18-0.35 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Clarke_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3); vertebrate (3) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyynnnnn (3); nnnyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (3) [sources: He_2011; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); transient (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; He_2011; NHNSW_2023; NSWFRD_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); basal_stem_buds (4) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; He_2011; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 10.51 mg (9.7-11.33 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 17 mm (15-19 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7 m (7-7 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (3) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	57	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	15	21	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	11	15	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_2023	9	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_2009	5	9	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
He_2011	4	4	T. He, B. B. Lamont, and K. S. Downes. “Banksia born to burn”. New Phytologist 191.1 (2011), pp. 184-196. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03663.x.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.