Banksia armata, commonly known as prickly dryandra,[2] is a species of often sprawling shrub that is endemic to Western Australia.

Brown published a description of the species in 1810 in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London naming it Dryandra armata.

[8] This was accepted as a species by Carl Meissner in 1845,[9] but declared a taxonomic synonym of D. armata by him in 1856,[10] and the latter view was taken by George Bentham his 1870 Flora Australiensis.

The main distribution is between Perth and Albany, but it also occurs near Mount Lesueur in the north, and between Esperance and Israelite Bay on the south coast.

[2][3] Banksia armata and both varieties are classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.