Dryandra subg. Dryandra

Its placement and circumscription may be summarised as follows:[1] Dryandra verae was renamed Eudryandra by Stephan Endlicher in 1847,[3] and this name was used in the 1856 arrangement of Carl Meissner.

Eubanksia, but discarded all eight of Meissner's groups within that section, replacing them with seven series defined using floral characters:[5] By the time Alex George published his revision of Dryandra in 1996, the rules of botanical nomenclature mandated that any infrageneric taxon that contained the type species of the genus be given an autonym.

Eudryandra was treated as illegitimate, and when George published essentially the same taxon at subgenus rank, it was instead named D. subg.

Dryandra in George's arrangement, as amended in 1999[7] and 2005,[8] 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.

[9][10][11] Early in 2007, Mast and Kevin Thiele initiated a rearrangement of Banksia by sinking Dryandra into it as B. ser.