sentences:  The flowers have a cream-coloured perianth up to long and a pistil long and maroon in the upper half.Flowering occurs from October to November and the follicles are oblong to elliptical, long and hairy only in the upper half.This banksia was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown who gave it the name "Dryandra foliolata" and published the description in "Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae" from specimens collected by William Baxter near King George's Sound in 1829.