Banksia dallanneyi

Banksia dallanneyi is a shrub that sometimes grows to a height of and has a fire-tolerant, underground stem and only a short above-ground stem. It has pinnatipartite or pinnatisect leaves that are long and wide on a petiole long. There are between ten and eighty triangular to oblong lobes on each side of the leaves and the lower surface is covered with woolly white hairs. The flowers are arranged in heads of between thirty and seventy with linear to lance-shaped involucral bracts long at the base of the head. The flowers have a cream-coloured, golden yellow or pinkish perianth long and a cream-coloured, pink or maroon pistil long. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruit is an egg-shaped, mostly glabrous follicle long. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Couch honeypot was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner as Dryandra lindleyana, published in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae. In 1996, Alex George described five subspecies, one subspecies with two varieties: The changed names of the subspecies and varieties are as follows and are accepted at the Australian Plant Census: • Banksia dallanneyi subsp. agricola; • Banksia dallanneyi subsp. dallanneyi; • Banksia dallanneyi var. dallanneyi; • Banksia dallanneyi var. mellicula; • Banksia dallanneyi subsp. media; • Banksia dallanneyi subsp. pollosta; • Banksia dallanneyi subsp. sylvestris; ==Distribution and habitat==

Banksia dallanneyi grows on flats and rises in a range of soil types between Geraldton and Albany. ==Ecology==

An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on this species found that its range is likely to contract by between 30% and 80% by 2080, depending on the severity of the change. ==References==