{{Short description|Species of shrub endemic to Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox |image = Banksia pellaeifolia.jpg |image_caption = Near Williams |genus = Banksia |display_parents = 2 |parent = Banksia ser. Dryandra |species = pellaeifolia |authority = A.R.Mast and K.R.Thiele<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Banksia pellaeifolia'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/204998|website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> |synonyms_ref =<ref name="APC" /> |synonyms = * ''Dryandra blechnifolia'' <small>R.Br.</small> * ''Dryandra pteridifolia var. blechnifolia'' <small>(R.Br.) R.Br. nom. inval., nom. nud.</small> * ''Josephia blechnifolia'' <small>(R.Br.) Poir.</small> }}
'''''Banksia pellaeifolia''''' is a species of shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has underground stems, deeply pinnatipartite leaves with twenty to thirty lobes on each side, yellowish-brown flowers in heads of about sixty-five, and egg-shaped follicles.
==Description== ''Banksia pellaeifolia'' is a shrub with hairy, underground, fire-tolerant stems and that typically grows to {{cvt|1.7|m}} in diameter. The leaves are pinnatipartite, {{cvt|200–350|mm}} long and {{cvt|50–130|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|20–40|mm}} long with between twenty and thirty linear, sharply pointed lobes on each side. The flowers are yellowish-brown and arranged in heads of sixty-five with egg-shaped to lance-shaped involucral bracts {{cvt|35–40|mm}} long at the base of the head. The perianth is {{cvt|40–47|mm}} long and the pistil {{cvt|39–45|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from May to August and the follicles are egg-shaped, {{cvt|18–19|mm}} long with scattered hairs.<ref name="George1999">{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Alex S. |title=Flora of Australia |volume=17B |date=1999 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra |location=Canberra |page=314 |url=https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/6d8c5c3b-8545-437e-b9b3-944ac95ee07a/files/flora-australia-17b-proteaceae-3-hakea-dryandra.pdf |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref><ref name=FloraBase>{{FloraBase|name=''Banksia pellaeifolia''|id=32164}}</ref>
==Taxonomy and naming== This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name ''Dryandra blechnifolia'' and published the description in the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London'' from specimens collected by Archibald Menzies near King George's Sound.<ref name=APNI1>{{cite web|title=''Dryandra blechnifolia''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/526793|publisher=APNI|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref> The specific epithet (''blechnifolia'') was a reference to the fern genus ''Blechnum'' with a Latin ending meaning "-leaved".<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |author=Francis Aubie Sharr |author-link=Francis Aubie Sharr |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, Western Australia |isbn=9780958034180}}</ref>{{rp|148}}
In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus ''Banksia'', but since there was already a species named ''Banksia blechnifolia'', Mast and Thiele gave this species the name ''Banksia pellaeifolia''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Banksia pellaeifolia''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/614056|publisher=APNI|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="CSIRO">{{cite journal|last1=Mast|first1=Austin R.|last2=Thiele|first2=Kevin|title=The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)|journal=Australian Systematic Botany|date=2013|volume=20|issue=1|pages=63–71|doi=10.1071/SB06016}}</ref> The epithet (''pellaeifolia'') refers to the fern genus ''Pellaea''.<ref name="Sharr" />{{rp|273}}
==Distribution and habitat== ''Banksia pellaeifolia'' grows in kwongan and is mostly found in the Stirling Range National Park and towards Ongerup.<ref name="George1999" /><ref name="FloraBase" />
==Ecology== An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that its range is likely to contract by between 50% and 80% by 2080, depending on the severity of the change.<ref name="Fitzpatrick 2008">{{cite journal | last1=Fitzpatrick | first1=Matthew C. | last2=Gove | first2=Aaron D. | last3=Sanders | first3=Nathan J. | last4=Dunn | first4=Robert R. | year = 2008 | title = Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: the ''Banksia'' (Proteaceae) of Western Australia | journal = Global Change Biology | volume = 14 | pages = 1–16 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01559.x | issue = 6 | bibcode=2008GCBio..14.1337F }}</ref>
==Conservation status== This banksia is classed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.<ref name="FloraBase" />
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite book | last1=Cavanagh | first1=Tony | last2=Pieroni | first2=Margaret | author-link2=Margaret Pieroni | year = 2006 | title = The Dryandras | publisher = Melbourne: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria); Perth: Wildflower Society of Western Australia | isbn = 1-876473-54-1}}
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pellaeifolia Category:Plants described in 1810 Category:Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)