sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra carlinoides" and published the description in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" from specimens collected by James Drummond.The specific epithet ("comosa") is a Latin word meaning "having tufts of hairs or of leaves".In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and renamed this species "Banksia comosa".