sentences:  This banksia was first formally described in 1996 by Alex George in the journal "Nuytsia" and given the name "Dryandra stricta" from specimens he collected near the Brand Highway near Regans Ford in 1986.In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus "Banksia" but since the name "Banksia stricta" had already been used for a species now known as "Pimelea stricta", Mast and Thiele changed the name to "Banksia strictifolia".The specific epithet "(strictifolia)" is from the Latin "strictus" meaning "straight" and -"folius" meaning "leaved".