along with many of meissner's infrageneric taxa, which were overly reliant on leaf characters, bentham discarded "d." § "ilicinae" in his 1870 arrangement. the species that meissner placed there were placed together in "d." ser. "armatae", except for "d. floribunda" (now "banksia sessilis") which bentham placed in "d." ser. "floribundae".