sentences:  Flowering occurs in May or August and the fruit is a hairy, egg-shaped follicle long.This species was first formally described in 1964 by Charles Austin Gardner who gave it the name "Dryandra foliosissima" and published the description in the "Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia" from specimens he collected near Ravensthorpe.In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and this species became "Banksia foliosissima".