Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Banksia canei
Common name
Mountain banksia
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, mallee shrubland, rocky areas, and stream banks, at higher altitudes. Ranges and tablelands south from Numeralla (east of Cooma), particularly Wadbilliga National Park. Kosciuszko National Park and nearby to the west.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Leaf margins entire or with a few spiny teeth. Leaf tips with sharp points, sometimes the margins with a few spiny teeth. Bark reddish to grey-brown, smooth, with lenticels. Branchlets hairy, finally becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–10 cm long, mostly 5–10 mm wide, tips mucronate, margins entire or with a few spiny teeth, upper surface dark green, more or less hairless, lower surface white-hairy, main veins rusty-hairy. Flower heads 50–150 mm long, of many flowers. Individual flowers pinkish mauve in bud, pale yellow, often with grey to blue grey tips when open, with 4 'petals' each 15–20 mm long, which split to the base when the flowers are fully open. Style generally curved, not remaining on mature cones. Cones 50–150 mm long. Flowers most of the year. Seeds with one wing.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Banksia~canei (accessed 30 April 2021)
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