sentences: "Banksia nivea" 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.Labillardière formally described and figured the species in "Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse," his account of the voyage published in 1800.