Banksia L.f.
Fruit a woody follicle. Flowers in pairs in each bract, Inflorescence usually ovoid or cylindrical >5 cm long . Banksia
Style permanently hooked at the tip
Undersurface of leaves white or concealed by revolute margins. Lignotuber present. Shrubs up to 2 m high, many-stemmed at the base.
Leaves 1–2 mm wide, revolute to the midrib, notched at the tip with a prominent point in the notch and several small teeth on each side towards the tip, sometimes fine serrations extending the whole length. Coast and adjacent plateaus south of Sydney. DSF. Ss. Fl. winter spinulosaspinulosa
Leaves 2–8 mm wide; margins recurved showing white undersurface, usually coarsely and evenly serrate. Coast and adjacent plateaus north of Sydney and Blue Mts Fl. winter (Intermediates between these varieties occur between Sydney and the Hawkesbury River.) spinulosacollina