Distribution
''Kingia australis'' is confined to the southern half of Western Australia.Habitat
''Kingia australis'' is confined to the southern half of Western Australia.Uses
The tree was identified by the state's conservator of forests, Charles Lane Poole, as being high in cellulose and exploited for a fibre industry. These fibres were used to make brooms and brushes, either coarse and long wearing street brooms or for more delicate purposes; Poole notes that these fibres were preferred by those employed as streetsweepers in Perth and Melbourne. The fibres were crudely processed from a layer of the material found throughout the trunk of the plant. This was separated from the soft core, dried to loosen the adhesion between them, and mechanically split and guillotined to lengths that were baled up for export.The name of the genus, ''Kingia'', was adopted for the title of the Western Australian Herbarium's publication of their research notes.
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