Salicinae was first published in 1856, in Carl Meissner's chapter on the Proteaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis.

Banksia, and defining it as containing only those species with entire, serrate or dentate leaves; a small pollen-presenter; and unbeaked follicles.

[6] In 1996, Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges undertook a cladistic analysis of morphological characters of Banksia, which yielded a phylogeny somewhat at odds with George's taxonomic arrangement.

Spicigerae (7 species, 6 varieties) B. oblongifolia B. plagiocarpa B. dentata B. robur B. marginata B. conferta subsp.

[4] Since 1998, Austin Mast has been publishing results of ongoing cladistic analyses of DNA sequence data for the subtribe Banksiinae.

His analyses suggest a phylogeny that is very greatly different from George's taxonomic arrangement, including finding Banksia to be paraphyletic with respect to Dryandra.

Mast's analyses did not include either subspecies of B. conferta (Glasshouse Banksia), but otherwise found B. ser.

The clade is not very well resolved, however, having a number of polytomies:[8][9][10] B. dentata B. oblongifolia B. robur B. plagiocarpa B. integrifolia subsp.

compar B. marginata B. saxicola B. paludosa B. canei Early in 2007 Mast and Thiele initiated a rearrangement of Banksia by transferring Dryandra into it, and publishing B. subg.

Mast and Thiele have foreshadowed publishing a full arrangement once DNA sampling of Dryandra is complete.

The exception, B. dentata (Tropical Banksia) spreads across the north of Australia to the Kimberleys, and also occurs on New Guinea and the Aru Islands.