About Banksia dallanneyi A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
Banksia dallanneyi is a shrub that typically reaches up to 0.3 m (1 ft 0 in) in height. It has a fire-tolerant underground stem, with only a short stem growing above ground. Its leaves are either pinnatipartite or pinnatisect, measuring 60–200 mm (2.4–7.9 in) long and 2–20 mm (0.079–0.787 in) wide, borne on a petiole 10–120 mm (0.39–4.72 in) long. Each side of the leaf holds between ten and eighty triangular to oblong lobes, and the lower leaf surface is covered in woolly white hairs. Flowers are arranged in heads containing between thirty and seventy individual flowers, with linear to lance-shaped involucral bracts 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) long at the base of each head. Individual flowers have a cream-coloured, golden yellow, or pinkish perianth 20–35 mm (0.79–1.38 in) long, and a cream-coloured, pink, or maroon pistil 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) long. Flowering takes place from May to October, and the resulting fruit is an egg-shaped, mostly glabrous follicle 7–13 mm (0.28–0.51 in) long. This species grows on flats and rises across a range of soil types, in the region between Geraldton and Albany. An assessment of potential climate change impacts on Banksia dallanneyi found its range is likely to contract by between 30% and 80% by 2080, with the extent of contraction depending on the severity of climate change.
