Banksia L.f.

Fruit a woody follicle. Flowers in pairs in each bract, Inflorescence usually ovoid or cylindrical >5 cm long . Banksia
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Style straight or gently curved from near the base
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Leaves not white underneath, 10–25 cm long
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Mature leaves rusty brown-tomentose and strongly reticulate underneath, ovate-oblong, mostly 10–25 cm long, 2–8 cm wide, irregularly and coarsely serrate. Spikes 8–12 cm long, 7–8 cm diam., deep bluish green when young. Style spreading; pollen presenter very small. Shrub c. 1 m high with densely tomentose branches. Coast and adjacent plateaus. Swamps. Fl. summer ( Hybrids between B. robur and B. oblongifolia occur) robur
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Mature leaves with greyish or brownish hairs underneath or almost glabrous, green on both surfaces, with parallel transverse veins, margins coarsely and evenly serrate