Niveae was "Flowering stems from a creeping trunk very short, with one or few ovoid flower-heads surrounded by long floral leaves.
Four species were included; the placement and circumscription of the series may be summarised as follows:[1] With the passage of time following the publication of Bentham's arrangement, D. ser.
When Alex George published his revision of Dryandra in 1996, he recognised that there were several taxa in the series, and that these could be distinguished by their leaf shape.
Niveae, as amended in 1999[3] and 2005,[4] may be summarised as follows: Since 1998, Austin Mast has been publishing results of ongoing cladistic analyses of DNA sequence data for the subtribe Banksiinae.
[5][6][7] Early in 2007, Mast and Kevin Thiele initiated a rearrangement of Banksia by sinking Dryandra into it as B. ser.