Banksia audax

Description

Banksia audax is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia. It occurs over a large area in the central south of Western Australia.It is an openly branched lignotuberous shrub around one metre tall, with grey, fizzured bark. Leaves are wedge-shaped, 2–7 centimetres long, 8–22 millimetres wide, with triangular serrations along the margins. Flowers occur in Banksia's characteristic "flower spike", an inflorescence made up of hundreds of pairs of flowers densely packed in a spiral around a woody axis. B. audax's flower spike is golden orange, ovoid, around five centimetres in diameter