Banksia proteoides, commonly known as king dryandra, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.

Inflorescence are yellow-brown, but concealed within the long red-brown outer bracts, making the flower head resemble that of a Protea.

The species was published under the name Dryandra proteoides by John Lindley in his 1840 A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony,[2] where he described it as having "much the look of a Cape Protea".

[4] Lindley also proffered no etymology for the specific epithet, but it is accepted that it is a reference to the similarity of the flower heads to those of Protea.

[5] The species has no infraspecific taxa; in 1870 George Bentham demoted Dryandra ferruginea (now Banksia rufa) to a variety of D. proteoides,[6] but this has since been reinstated to specific rank.