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Banksia serrata
Description: Shrub or tree, to 16 m high in favourable habitats, sometimes in coastal sites a shrub to 3 m high; bark warty, ± friable, grey-brown; branchlets ± tomentose. Leaves alternate, ± crowded, oblong to narrow-obovate, 5–20 cm long, 15–40 mm wide, apex truncate but with a short mucro, base attenuate, margins ± toothed but entire for 1–5 c. from base, lower surface rusty-tomentose but becoming ± glabrous. Inflorescence 7–15 cm long. Perianth c. 40 mm long, creamy-grey, persistent. Style gently curved, cream, persistent and bent down and outward in fruit. Follicles up to 30, 25–35 mm long, prominently exserted.
Open woodland.
Spotted on Dec 29, 2012
Submitted on Aug 22, 2013
1 Comment
Very cool plant!