sentences:  The Wongan dryandra was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra pulchella" in the journal "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis".In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus "Banksia" but as there was already a plant named "Banksia pulchella" (teasel banksia), Mast and Thiele chose the specific epithet "bella".