Bentham's taxonomic arrangement of Dryandra

The dryandras are a group of proteaceous shrubs endemic to southwest Western Australia.

For nearly two hundred years they were considered a separate genus, having been published at that rank in 1810 by Robert Brown.

[3] This was followed by the 1856 arrangement of Carl Meissner, which recognised 53 species and six varieties, dividing them into three sections and eight series, and maintaining the monospecific genus Hemiclidia.

George's arrangement retained a number of Bentham's infrageneric taxa.

Mast and Thiele were not yet ready to proffer an arrangement for the new circumscription of Banksia, so as an interim measure they transferred Dryandra at series rank, so as to minimise disruption to the nomenclature.