sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra horrida" and published the description in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.The specific epithet ("horrida") is a Latin word meaning "shaggy" or "prickly".In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and renamed this species "Banksia hewardiana".