Lindley, J. (1 January 1840), A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony: xxxiii. [tax. nov.]

• Type: (none cited).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 73 [secondary reference]

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

basionym of: Josephia proteoides (Lindl.) Kuntze legitimate

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: 173 (fig., map) [secondary reference]

common name: king dryandra [n/a]

• Etymology: :"From the genus Protea, which the flower heads resemble."

George, A.S. (25 January 1996), New taxa and a new infrageneric classification in Dryandra R.Br. (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae). Nuytsia 10(3): 366 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: south-western Western Australia, 183-, J. Drummond s.n. (neo (here nominated): K; isoneo: K (2 sheets).

George, A.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Dryandra. Flora of Australia 17B: 307, Map 334 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Josephia proteoides (Lindl.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dryandra proteoides Lindl. var. proteoides legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Josephia proteoides (Lindl.) Kuntze legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Banksia proteoides (Lindl.) 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 proteoides (Lindl.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele legitimate

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