sentences:  "vernalis" in the journal "Nuytsia" and in a later volume of the same journal, George described subspecies "inretita".In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and renamed this species "Banksia pteridifolia" and the subspecies "pteridifolia", "vernalis" and "inretita" respectively.The names of the subspecies are accepted by the Australian Plant Census.