Talk:Banksia spinulosa/Comment
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[edit] General
- I removed most links from the references that were already linked in the article, for reasons I have expounded about elsewhere.
[edit] Intro
- "sclerophyll"
- Linked that, but ideally a replacement word should be used there, and sclerophyll itself under "Distribution and habitat".
Done - just means dry anyway
- Linked that, but ideally a replacement word should be used there, and sclerophyll itself under "Distribution and habitat".
- "perianth"
- replaced it with "fused petals". I hope it's not too inaccurate. (a bit awkward but maybe it is too much detail anyway so I reworded it anyway)
- When you decide whether or not to use "complex" to describe the species, make sure to adjust the head accordingly. (ditched it as cannot find orignal ref and none of the key texts mention it)
- All these mentions of dwarf forms feel overdetailed for the intro Done
[edit] Description
- "which may become tesselated with age" (I scrubbed it as it is fairly subtle when you see the plant anyway)
- jargon alert
- Also,not clear whether that refers o the bark or the lenticels
- "fairly prominently displayed emerging from the foliage"
- Consider rewording this bit - yeah, this is tricky....
- I tweaked the last paragraph so that a explanation of the infructescence in general comes before the details, so as to make the quotes around "cone", it might need further tweaking though. It looks like the whole paragraph is from a single source, so consider putting just a citation at the end Done
[edit] Varieties
- It is not clear from the data in the article what separates var. cunninghamii and var. spinulosa. In the same vein, the var. spinulosa article implies they have different habits, which the cunninghamii article contradicts. Done -hopefully
[edit] Hybrids
- The bit about gradation sounds rather out of place. Done
