page_title: Banksia ser. Crocinae
section_title: Thiele and Ladiges 1996
hierarchical_section_title: Banksia ser. Crocinae / Thiele and Ladiges 1996
caption_attribution_description: This is Plate 4906 from Volume 82 of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, entitled BANKSIA Victoriæ. Victorian Banksia. The plant depicted is Banksia victoriae (Woolly Orange Banksia).
context_page_description: Banksia ser. Crocinae is a taxonomic series in the genus Banksia. It consists of four closely related species, all of which are endemic to Western Australia; namely B. prionotes, B. burdettii, B. hookeriana and B. victoriae. The series was first published by Alex George in 1981, but discarded by Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges in 1996, and finally reinstated by George in 1999. Recent cladistic analyses suggest that it is monophyletic or nearly so.
context_section_description: In 1996, Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges undertook a cladistic analysis of morphological characters of Banksia, which yielded a phylogeny somewhat at odds with George's taxonomic arrangement. Their cladogram included a clade consisting of the members of George's B. ser. Banksia, together with the four members of B. ser. Crocinae:
  B. ser. Crocinae was found to be monophyletic, but B. ser. Banksia was paraphyletic with respect to it. To resolve this, Thiele and Ladiges abandoned B. ser. Crocinae, transferring its four taxa into B. ser. Banksia. They then divided B. ser. Banksia, into two subseries, with the species belonging to George's B. ser. Crocinae endind up in B. subser. Cratistylis.
caption: B. victoriae
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