Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Proteaceae. Plantae Preissianae 2(2-3): 267 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond coll. III no. 299."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 60 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 159, 163 (fig., map) [secondary reference]

common name: Drummond's dryandra [n/a]

• Etymology: "Named after James Drummond (1784-1863), noted collector of WA plants, who first collected this species in 1844."

George, A.S. (25 January 1996), New taxa and a new infrageneric classification in Dryandra R.Br. (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae). Nuytsia 10(3): 367 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Dryandra. Flora of Australia 17B: 307-308 [secondary reference]

Mast, A.R. & Thiele, K.R. (26 February 2007), The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 67 [basionym]

basionym of: Banksia drummondii (Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele legitimate

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