Banksia formosa, commonly known as showy dryandra,[2] is a species of shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

It has pinnatipartite leaves with up to forty triangular lobes on each side, up to more than two hundred, conspicuous golden orange flowers and up to sixteen egg-shaped follicles in each head.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Dryandra formosa and published the description in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.

[6][7] The specific epithet (formosa) is a Latin word meaning "beautiful on account of form".

[8] Banksia formosa grows in kwongan and open forest between Busselton and Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve and is common near Albany and in the Stirling Range.