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Grevillea banksii

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea banksii R.Br.

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Grevillea bancksii Poir. (orthographic variant)
  • Grevillea banksii R.Br. f. banksii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Grevillea banksii R.Br. var. banksii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Grevillea banksii f. albiflora (O.Deg.) O.Deg. & I.Deg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea banksii var. forsteri Guilf. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea forsteri Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea forsteri Hulle (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea forsterii Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea robusta var. forsteri L.H.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stylurus banksii (R.Br.) O.Deg. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stylurus banksii (R.Br.) O.Deg. f. banksii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stylurus banksii f. albiflora O.Deg. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), ANBG_2019 (8), Chen_2017 (5), Hocking_1986 (14), Jordan_2020 (7), Kew_2019_1 (3), McCarthy_2017 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 85 records in 14 datasets.

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

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 114.2 mg (114.2-114.2 mg) [sources: Hocking_1986]
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); erect (1); prostrate (1); spindly (1); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 35.07 mg (18.02-45 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Hocking_1986; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 12.16 mm (12.16-12.16 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6.54 mm (6.54-6.54 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.49-0.53 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
McCarthy_2017315J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Hocking_19861414P. J. Hocking. “Mineral nutrient composition of leaves and fruits of selected species of Grevillea from southwestern Australia, with special reference to Grevillea leucopteris Meissn”. Australian Journal of Botany 34.2 (1986), pp. 155-164. doi: 10.1071/bt9860155.
ABRS_2023912Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ANBG_201968Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Jordan_202077G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_198133B. 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/.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_200622L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.