Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 119 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Drummond, coll. vi. n. 200.

• Comment: Given under BANKSIA L.f. (nom. cons.).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 72 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 582 [basionym]

basionym of: Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

George, A.S. (11 September 1981), The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). Nuytsia 3(3): 366-367. Figs 4H, 56B, 57 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Lecto (here chosen): BM; iso: CGE, K, LD, MEL (3 sheets), P, U."

nomenclatural synonym: Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 58 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 95 (map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate common name: elegant banksia [n/a]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 108, 138 [secondary reference]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Elegant Banksia [n/a]

George, A.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Banksia. Flora of Australia 17B: 221, Map 225 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Banksia elegans Fraser Road form (A.C.Burns 27) [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA

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