Banksia saxicola A.S.George

Shrub without lignotuber, to 3 m tall and very spreading or, in sheltered situations, erect and to 13 m tall. Bark smooth becoming somewhat rough, grey. Stems densely tomentose, pink, becoming glabrous and brown. Leaves whorled, coriaceous; petiole 5-10 mm long; lamina lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, 4-10 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, obtuse; margins recurved, entire or with a few short lobes; upper surface dark green and shining, hirsute, glabrescent; lower surface white-tomentose. Inflorescence 3.5-8 cm long; involucral bracts 5-10 mm long, velvety, persistent. Flowers yellow, often grey-tinged; styles yellow. Perianth 19-22 mm long including limb of 3.5-4 mm, closely pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Pistil gently curved, slender, 23-31 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter 1.5 mm long, slightly thickened. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles up to c. 60, elliptic, 12-20 mm long, 4-7 mm high, 5-7 mm wide; valves semi-elliptic, smooth, velvety, glabrescent. Seed obovate, 14-19 mm long; seed body lunate-obovate, 9-11 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, smooth to slightly rugose.

In The Grampians occurs among sandstone rocks on exposed upper slopes in scrub and in sheltered gullies in woodland, and on Wilsons Promontory among granite boulders in forest.