Banksia canei

Spreading, flat-crowned shrub to c. 3 m high; bark smooth, red- to grey-brown; branchlets finally glabrescent. Leaves alternate, scattered, linear or narrowly obovate to lanceolate, 2–5(–10) cm long, 5–10 mm wide, discolorous, upper surface dark green, more or less glabrous, lower surface white-tomentose, main veins rusty-pubescent; apex acute or obtuse, mucronate; margins entire or with a few spiny teeth; petiole 2–4 mm long. Inflorescence 5–15 cm long, 4–6 cm wide at anthesis. Tepals 15–20 mm long, pale yellow, limb often blue-grey at anthesis, hairy, deciduous; style gently curved, deciduous. Follicles to c. 150, 12–25 mm long, white-or rusty-tomentose, glabrescent except at base; opening only after fire; body of seed more or less semicircular, c. 7 mm long, wing to c. 16 mm long. Flowers Nov.–May