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{{Short description|Variety of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia}}
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|image = Dryandra armata ignicida (B. armata) Cape Le Grand NP IV-2014.JPG
|image_caption = Variety ''ignicida'' in Cape Le Grand National Park
|genus = Banksia
|species = armata
|varietas = ignicida
|authority = (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Banksia aurantia'' var. ''ignicida''|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/205079|website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''''Banksia armata'' var. ''ignicida''''' is a [[Biology:Variety (botany)|variety]] of shrub that is [[Biology:Endemism|endemic]] to Western Australia. It differs from the [[Biology:Autonym (botany)|autonym]] ([[Biology:Banksia armata var. armata|''Banksia armata'' var. ''armata'']]) in not having a [[Biology:Lignotuber|lignotuber]]. It is also usually a taller plant with leaves that are longer with fewer side lobes, and longer flowers.

==Description==
''Banksia armata'' var. ''ignicida'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|3|m}} and lacks a [[Biology:Lignotuber|lignotuber]]. It has leaves that are {{cvt|60-80|mm}} long and {{cvt|20-25|mm}} wide and deeply serrated with between five and eight triangular, sharply pointed lobes on each side. The [[Biology:Perianth|perianth]] is yellow, {{cvt|30-39|mm}} long and the [[Biology:Gynoecium#Pistils|pistil]] {{cvt|35-42|mm}} long.<ref name=FloraBase>{{FloraBase|name=''Banksia armata'' var. ''ignicida''|id=32683}}</ref><ref name="CSIRO">{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Alex S. |title=Flora of Australia |volume=17B |date=1999 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra |location=Canberra |page=269 |url=https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/6d8c5c3b-8545-437e-b9b3-944ac95ee07a/files/flora-australia-17b-proteaceae-3-hakea-dryandra.pdf |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="Nuytsia">{{cite journal |last1=George |first1=Alex |title=New taxa and a new infrageneric classification in ''Dryandra'' R.Br. (Proteaceae : Grevilleoideae) |journal=Nuytsia |date=1996 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=331–332 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224945#page/25/mode/1up |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
Specimens of ''B. armata'' were first collected in 1801, and the description was published in 1810 in the ''[[Organization:Linnean Society of London#Publications|Transactions of the Linnean Society of London]]'' by [[Biography:Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)|Robert Brown]] as ''Dryandra armata''.<ref name=APNI1>{{cite web|title=''Dryandra armata''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/526659 |publisher=APNI|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="R.Br.">{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Robert |title=On the Proteaceae of Jussieu |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |date=1810 |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=213 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/757212#page/223/mode/1up |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> In 1996, Alex George described two varieties of ''D. armata'' in the journal ''Nuytsia''. The [[Biology:Type|type]] specimens of ''D. armata'' var. ''ignicida'' were collected by him east of Woodanilling.<ref name="Nuytsia" /><ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Dryandra armata'' var. ''ignicida''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/558959 |publisher=APNI|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> The varietal epithet (''ignicida'') is from the Latin ''{{lang|la|ignis}}'' ("fire") and ''{{lang|la|-cidus}}'' ("killing"), in reference to the fact that this variety is killed by fire (because it lacks a lignotuber).<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |author=Francis Aubie Sharr |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, Western Australia |isbn=9780958034180 |page=362}}</ref> In 2007, all ''Dryandra'' species were transferred to ''[[Biology:Banksia|Banksia]]'' by Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele and the change is accepted by the [[Biology:Australian Plant Census|Australian Plant Census]].<ref name="APC" /><ref name="ASB">{{cite journal |last1=Mast |first1=Austin R. |last2=Thiele |first2=Kevin |title=The transfer of ''Dryandra'' R.Br. to ''Banksia'' L.f. (Proteaceae) |journal=Australian Systematic Botany |date=2007 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=63–71 |doi=10.1071/SB06016}}</ref>

==Distribution and habitat==
This variety occurs through much of the south-west of Western Australia, being widespread between Pingelly and Katanning, and east to Mount Ragged in the Cape Arid National Park.<ref name="CSIRO" />

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[[Category:Banksia ser. Dryandra|armata var. ignicida]]

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