1793 — Luis Née makes an extensive collection at Port Jackson, New South Wales, including the first specimens of B. oblongifolia (Fern-leaved Banksia), and new specimens of the undescribed B. marginata and B. robur.
1809 The controversial Richard Anthony Salisbury publishes two species of Banksia, though with inadequate descriptions for the definitions to be applied, the names are not used.[1]
1829 — At King George Sound, Baxter collects the first specimens of B. caleyi (Cayley's Banksia), B. baxteri (Baxter's Banksia), Banksia goodii (Good's Banksia) and Banksia brownii (Brown's Banksia). He then travels inland to the Stirling Range, where he collects the first specimens of B. baueri (Woolly Banksia) and B. solandri (Stirling Range Banksia).
1830 — Brown published B. media, B. caleyi, B. baueri, B. menziesii, B. solandri, B. baxteri, B. goodii and B. brownii. He published B. gardneri as Banksia prostrata, but this is later ruled an illegitimate name.
1855 — Meissner publishes the species collected by Drummond in 1851–1852. B. leptophylla is published as B. pinifolia, but this is later ruled an illegitimate name.
1856 — Meissner publishes a taxonomy of the Proteaceae, including his arrangement of Banksia. B. laevigata, B. lemanniana and B. incana are published, the last of these as B. sphaerocarpa var. glabrescens, but it is later promoted to species rank and renamed. In total, 58 species are listed; these are classified into two sections and four series.
1869 — Mueller publishes B. oreophila as B. quercifolia var. integrifolia; this would later be promoted to species rank, forcing a rename.
1870 — George Bentham publishes a new arrangement for Banksia in his Flora Australiensis. No new species are published; in fact Bentham reduces the number of species from 60 to 46. Bentham's classification uses two subgenera and four sections, and would stand for over 100 years.
1891 - Otto Kuntze challenges Banksia L.f. on grounds of precedence of Banksia J.R.Forst & G.Forst, proposing the name Sirmuellera Kuntze in place of Banksia L.f. The challenge fails.
July 1958 — Gardner collects the first specimen of B. laricina (Rose-fruited Banksia) from Beermullah, Western Australia.
1960 — Gardner collects the first specimen of B. pilostylis (Marsh Banksia) near Young River, Western Australia.
27 November 1962 — James Willis collects type material for B. canei (Mountain Banksia) after nurseryman William Cane draw attention to its distinctness.
February 1984 - Commencement of The Banksia Atlas project, a three-year nationwide program that mobilised over 400 volunteers to make field observations of Banksia specimens.
1996 — Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges publish A Cladistic Analysis of Banksia, in which they propose a number of changes to George's taxonomic arrangement.
1996 — George promotes B. integrifolia subsp. aquilonia to species rank as B. aquilonia.
1999 — George publishes a monograph on the taxonomy of Banksia as part of the Flora of Australia book series. Most of Thiele and Ladiges' changes are rejected.
21st centuryedit
2000 — Rosser's project to paint every Banksia species concludes with the publication of the third and final volume of her monograph The Banksias.
2000 — B. rosserae is discovered. Accounts of its discovery differ, with some attributing Ann Pilkington, and others John Cullen.
2002 — Peter Olde and Neil Marriott publish B. rosserae.
2002 and 2005 — Austin Mast and co-authors publish cladistic analyses of genetic data, that suggest two large Banksiaclades, which they name "/Cryptostomata" ("hidden stomates") and "/Phanerostomata" ("visible stomates"). Their results also strongly suggest that Banksia is polyphyletic with Dryandra.
2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transfer Dryandra to Banksia and publish B. subg. Spathulatae for the "/Phanerostomata", thereby redefining B. subg. Banksia as containing the "/Cryptostomata".
Referencesedit
^ abBanksias by Kevin Collins, Kath Collins and Alex George published 2008, ISBN 978-1-876473-58-7
George, A. S. (1984). The Banksia Book. Kenthurst, New South Wales: Kangaroo Press in association with The Society For Growing Australian Plants — NSW. ISBN 0-86417-143-9.