sentences:  However most of "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony" is based upon the collections of Drummond, and one of Drummond's specimens has since been selected as lectotype for the species.Lindley also proffered no etymology for the specific epithet, but it is accepted that it is a reference to the similarity of the flower heads to those of "Protea".The species has no infraspecific taxa; in 1870 George Bentham demoted "Dryandra ferruginea" (now "Banksia rufa") to a variety of "D. proteoides", but this has since been reinstated to specific rank.