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 in diameter. The leaves are pinnatipartite, long and wide on a petiole 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 long at the base of the head. The perianth is long and the pistil long. Flowering occurs from May to August and the follicles are egg-shaped, long with scattered hairs. 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. The specific epithet (blechnifolia) was a reference to the fern genus Blechnum with a Latin ending meaning "-leaved". 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. The epithet (pellaeifolia) refers to the fern genus Pellaea. Distribution and habitat Banksia pellaeifolia grows in kwongan and is mostly found in the Stirling Range National Park and towards Ongerup. 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. Conservation status This banksia is classed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. References pellaeifolia Plants described in 1810 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)