Banksia sect. Banksia

• Salicinae is one of the most primitive Banksia series; it contains 11 species, all highly variable;
• Grandes contains 2 species whose leaves have large prominent triangular lobes;
• Banksia contains 8 species with smooth or toothed leaves;
• Crocinae contains 4 species with woolly orange flowers;
• Prostratae contains 6 species that grow as prostrate shrubs;
• Cyrtostylis contains 13 species with unusually slender flowers;
• Tetragonae contains 3 species whose flower spikes hang down;
• Bauerinae contains a single species Banksia baueri;
• Quercinae contains 2 species that differ from other species in the section by some unusual anatomical features of their flowers, and their top-down sequence of anthesis.