Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 570 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia, Drummond, 1st coll., 2nd coll. n. 342."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 72 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 578 [basionym]

basionym of: Josephia polycephala (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 172 [secondary reference]

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

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Proteaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 326, Fig. 107 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 66 (plate), 155 (plate), 172 (fig., map) [secondary reference]

common name: showy dryandra [n/a]

• Etymology: "Grom Greek prefix poly-, many, and -cephalus, headed (in compound words); refers to many flower heads."

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 111, 134 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Dryandra. Flora of Australia 17B: 278, Map 290 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: south-western Western Australia, 184-, J.Drummond 2: 342 (lecto (here chosen): K; isolecto: BM, NY, PERTH).

nomenclatural synonym: Josephia polycephala (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Banksia polycephala (Benth.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele legitimate

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): 69 [basionym]

basionym of: Banksia polycephala (Benth.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele legitimate

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