Banksia saxicola

Spreading shrub or erect tree to c. 13 m high; lignotuber absent; bark smooth to rough, grey; branchlets finally glabrescent. Leaves often whorled, lanceolate to obovate, 4–12 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, discolorous, upper surface dark green, shiny (rusty-pubescent when young), lower surface white-tomentose, midrib hirsute with rusty hairs; margins entire or with a few short teeth (juvenile or subadult leaves), slightly recurved; apex sometimes mucronate; petiole 5–10 mm long. Inflorescence 3.5–8 cm long, 5–6 cm wide at anthesis. Tepals 19–22 mm long, yellow-cream with greyish limb, hairy, deciduous; style curved slightly, yellowish, deciduous. Follicles to c. 60, 12–20 mm long, velvety at first, finally glabrescent except at base; opening spontaneously on ripening or over several years; body of seed more or less lunate, 9–11 mm long, wing 14–19 mm long. Flowers mainly Jan.–Mar.