Banksia Nivea
Copper-line engraving. C1800. 450mm by 310mm (platemark). Banksia nivea, commonly known as Honeypot Dryandra, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
This species was first collected by Jacques Labillardière in the vicinity of Esperance Bay between 15 and 17 December 1792, during a search for the naturalist Claude Riche, who had become lost on the Australian mainland. This was described and figured as above in 'Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse', his account of the voyage published in 1800, under the name Banksia nivea. In 1810 Robert Brown transferred it into a new genus, Dryandra, and it remained there until 2007 when Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all Dryandra species into Banksia. CONDITION : One small faint spot lower right corner." Item #2583
Price: $650.00