sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra carlinoides" and published the description in Lehmann's "Plantae Preissianae".The specific epithet ("carlinoides") is a reference to a perceived similarity to plants in the genus "Carlina".In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia".