2068.000 Banksia L.f.

Trees or shrubs, some with prostrate stems. Leaves alternate, sometimes whorled. Inflorescence many-flowered, dense, cylindric, ovoid or spherical; in 3 species reduced and head-like, with a basal involucre of narrow, usually hairy bracts. Flowers in pairs, each flower subtended by a bract, and each pair by a larger bract; perianth of 4 equal tepals. Fruit a woody follicle. Seeds 1 or 2 with an intermediary 2-winged plate of similar outline and size, cotyledons with acute basal auricles.

Worldwide: 76 species endemic to Australia except 1 which also occurs on the islands to the north.

Zimbabwe: 3 cultivated taxa.