sentences:  Each head has only three or four follicles.This banksia was first formally described in 1996 by Alex George in the journal "Nuytsia" and given the name "Dryandra fuscobractea" from specimens collected in 1986 by Margaret Pieroni near Gillingarra.In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and this species became "Banksia fuscobractea".