 In Brown 's arrangement of Banksia , B. verticillata was placed between B. compar ( now B. integrifolia subsp. compar ) and B. coccinea ( scarlet banksia ) in phyletic order . No infrageneric arrangement was provided other than the removal of one distinctive species into a subgenus of its own , because of its unusual domed flower head . As B. verticillata flowers occur in characteristic flower spikes , it was retained in Banksia verae , the " true banksias " . Banksia verae was renamed Eubanksia by Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher in 1847 , with B. verticillata remaining between the same two species as in Brown 's sequence . A more detailed arrangement was published by Carl Meissner in 1856 . Eubanksia was demoted to sectional rank , and divided it into four series . B. verticillata was placed in series Salicinae because its leaves are more or less linear , and have white undersides . Based as they were on leaf characters , Meissner 's series were highly heterogeneous , and George Bentham discarded them all in his 1870 revision of Banksia . B. verticillata was instead placed in a new section , Oncostylis , because of its hooked styles . This arrangement would stand for over a century . 
