sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1855 by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra stenoprion" and published the description in "Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany" from specimens collected by James Drummond.In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and renamed this species "Banksia stenoprion".