The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous but the lower side is covered with a layer of greyish-white felted hairs.

When mature, the flowers are yellowish-orange but the style, which has a hooked end, changes colour from red to black at anthesis.

neoanglica and published the description in Nuytsia from a specimen collected on 6 April 1986 by Stephen Clemesha on the Ebor-Armidale Road, about a kilometre north of the turnoff to New England National Park.

[7] In 2012, Margaret Stimpson and Jeremy Bruhl raised the variety to species level and described Banksia neoanglica in the journal PhytoKeys.

Since 1998, Austin Mast has been publishing results of ongoing cladistic analyses of DNA sequence data for the subtribe Banksiinae.

[10][11][12] Early in 2007, Mast and Thiele initiated a rearrangement of Banksia by merging Dryandra into it, and publishing B. subg.

It grows in sandy soil in woodland, forest and heath, often with White Mountain banksia (B. integrifolia subsp.

It is commonly a shrub with up to ten stems and an underground lignotuber but sometimes a single-stemmed small tree with a lignotuberous swelling just above or just below soil level.

The former occurs in areas that are prone to bushfire, have few infructescences per plant and retain their seeds in the fruit until the shrub is burned.

The single-stemmed form is found in areas such as the Lamington National Park where fire is rare, and these plants have many infructescences which release their seeds as the fruit matures.

[2] This banksia is not considered at risk as it is widespread, locally common and protected in reserves in both New South Wales and Queensland.