Banksia penicillata

Banksia penicillata
Banksia penicillata in Maranoa Gardens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Banksia
Species:
B. penicillata
Binomial name
Banksia penicillata
Synonyms
  • Banksia conferta subsp. penicillata (A.S.George) A.S.George
  • Banksia conferta var. penicillata A.S.George

Banksia penicillata is a species of shrub that is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It has smooth bark, serrated, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, green to bluish flower buds, later yellow flowers in a cylindrical spike, and later still, up to one hundred narrow elliptical follicles in each spike, surrounded by the remains of the flowers.