sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name "Dryandra obtusa" and published the description in "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London".The specific epithet ("obtusa") is from a Latin word meaning "blunt", referring either to the leaves or the leaf lobes.In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and renamed this species "Banksia obtusa".