Banksia anatona (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Shrub to 5 m with 1 main stem and short laterals, without lignotuber. Stems tomentose and hirsute. Leaves: petiole 3-7 mm long, hirsute; lamina cuneate, undulate, 3-7 cm long, 12-22 mm wide, obtuse to acute, mucronate, hirsute and glabrescent above, white-tomentose below; margins recurved, irregularly serrate; teeth 10-12 each side. Inflorescence terminal or on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 20-25 mm long; outer bracts squarrose, pubescent with hirsute margins; flowers c. 170 per head. Perianth 39-40 mm long, pale yellow, hirsute above base, pubescent distally; limb 5.5-6 mm long, acute, hirsute, with apical hairs coarser. Pistil incurved, 49-50 mm long, pale yellow, glabrous; ovary long-hirsute; pollen presenter narrow above slender neck, 2-3 mm long, ribbed. Follicles obovate, pubescent, 23-24 mm long, hirsute.

Grows on slopes, in sandy soil over gravelly shale, in thick kwongan.