{{Short description|Series of plant species native to Australia}} {{Redirect|Dryandra|the locality and conservation area in Western Australia|Dryandra Woodland}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date = September 2019}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Dryandra sessilis 2 cape Naturaliste email.jpg |image_caption = Inflorescence of ''B. sessilis'' (Parrotbush), Cape Naturaliste |taxon = Banksia ser. Dryandra |authority = (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 92, see list |range_map = |range_map_caption = }}

'''''Banksia'' ser. ''Dryandra''''' is a series of 94 species of shrub to small tree in the plant genus ''Banksia''. It was considered a separate genus named '''''Dryandra''''' until early 2007, when it was merged into ''Banksia'' on the basis of extensive molecular and morphological evidence that ''Banksia'' was paraphyletic with respect to ''Dryandra''.

==Taxonomy== The dryandras were named in honour of Swedish botanist Jonas C. Dryander. The first specimens of a ''Dryandra'' were collected by Archibald Menzies, surgeon and naturalist to the Vancouver Expedition. At the request of Joseph Banks, Menzies collected natural history specimens wherever possible during the voyage. During September and October 1791, while the expedition were anchored at King George Sound, he collected numerous plant specimens, including the first specimens of ''B.&nbsp;sessilis'' (Parrotbush) and ''B.&nbsp;pellaeifolia''. Upon Menzies' return to England, he turned his specimens over to Banks; as with most other specimens in Banks' library, they remained undescribed for many years.<ref name="Cavanagh 2006">{{Cite book | author = Cavanagh, Tony and Margaret Pieroni | year = 2006 | title = The Dryandras | publisher = Melbourne: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria); Perth: Wildflower Society of Western Australia | isbn = 1-876473-54-1}}</ref>

Further specimens were collected in late 1792 by Jacques Labillardière, one of five naturalists in Bruni d'Entrecasteaux's expedition in search of the lost expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. While ashore west of Esperance Bay between 11 and 18 December, Labillardière collected the first specimens of ''B.&nbsp;nivea'' (Honeypot Dryandra).<ref name="Cavanagh 2006"/>

==Description== They are arguably among the most attractive and showy of all members of Proteaceae.{{Opinion|date=January 2024}}

''Banksia'' ser. ''Dryandra'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the Dryandra moth.

==Distribution and habitat== thumb|right|Distribution of ''B.''&nbsp;ser. ''Dryandra'', shown on a map of Western Australia's biogeographic regions<ref name="FloraBase">{{FloraBase | name = ''Dryandra'' | id = 21318}}</ref> Endemic to Western Australia, ''Dryandra'' occurs virtually throughout the South West Botanic Province, and also, to a much lesser degree, in southwest parts of the Eremaean Province.

==Cultivation== The species are found only in the southwestern corner of Western Australia. They have never been popular among gardeners among the rest of Australia due to their dislike of the humid and subtropical conditions which dominate the east coast.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{Cite journal | author = Mast, Austin and Kevin Thiele | year = 2007 | title = The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae) | journal = Australian Systematic Botany | volume = 20 | issue = 1 | pages = 63–71 | doi = 10.1071/SB06016 | bibcode = 2007AuSyB..20...63M }}

==External links== {{Wikisource|Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 10/On the Proteaceae of Jussieu/Dryandra|Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 10/On the Proteaceae of Jussieu/Dryandra}} {{Wikisource|Flora Australiensis/Volume V/CIV. Proteaceae/29. Dryandra|Flora Australiensis/Volume&nbsp;V/CIV.&nbsp;Proteaceae/29.&nbsp;Dryandra}} * {{Flora of Australia Online | name = ''Dryandra'' R.Br. | id = 46399}} * {{FloraBase|name=''Dryandra''}} * {{APNI | name = ''Dryandra'' R.Br. | id = 23501}}

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