Banksia integrifolia L.f., Proteaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 5 (Go to the risk assessment).

Other Latin names:  Banksia compar R. Br.

Common name(s): [more details]

English: coast banksia, white-honeysuckle

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Tree to 25 m tall, fire tolerant. Bark roughly tessellated. Stems pubescent and pilose, glabrescent, pale brown. Leaves in whorls of 3-5; petiole 4-10 mm long; lamina narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, 4-20 cm long, 10-26 mm wide, obtuse or emarginate; margins not or slightly recurved, entire; upper surface dull green, pubescent, glabrescent; lower surface closely white-woolly. Inflorescence 5-12 cm long; involucral bracts 2-10 mm long, tomentose. Flowers pale yellow, including styles. Perianth 22-25 mm long including limb of 3.5-4.5 mm, closely pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Pistil straight or slightly curved, 27-32 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter 0.5-1 mm long, scarcely thickened. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles up to c. 60, narrowly elliptic, 7-15 mm long, 3-10 mm high, 3-6 mm wide; valves semi-elliptic, smooth, tomentose, glabrescent. Seed obovate, 10-20 mm long; seed body ±cuneate, 6-10 mm long, ±smooth"  (Flora of Australia Online).

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "Widespread along the east coast [of Australia] and inland to the nearby mountains, from Proserpine, Queensland, to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria"  (Flora of Australia Online).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Kaua‘i Island		Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1989) (voucher ID: BISH 514189) Taxon name on voucher: Banksia integrifolia L.f.
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Maui Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Starr, Forest/Starr, Kim/Loope, Lloyd L. (2006) (p. 40) East Maui. Vouchers cited: Starr & Starr 050719-1 (BISH), Starr, Starr & Bio 050817-3 (BISH) Cultivated and sparingly naturalized.

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Australia Australia (continental)	Australia (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Australia Australia (continental)	New South Wales	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Australia Australia (continental)	Queensland	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)

Additional information:
Fact sheet from Florabank.

Additional online information about Banksia integrifolia is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Banksia integrifolia as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Banksia integrifolia may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1989. Voucher specimen #BISH514189(Flynn, T. 3367).

Starr, Forest/Starr, Kim/Loope, Lloyd L. 2006. New plant records from the Hawaiian Archipelago. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Eldredge, Lucias G., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2004-2005. Part 1: Articles. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 87:31-43.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.