"caesia", and noted that the Ironcap banksia, which was a sister taxon to this combined group, had stouter old styles on old cones which did not curl around, while those of the other varieties curled around the infructescence to form a ball.George replied in the 1999 Flora of Australia treatment of "Banksia" that he did not feel this character alone justified specific rank, and that otherwise the plant was merely larger in all parts to var.