sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1996 by Alex George who gave it the name "Dryandra lepidorhiza" and published the description in the journal "Nuytsia" from a specimen he collected west of Woodanilling in 1986.The specific epithet ("lepidorhiza") is from the ancient Greek words (), meaning 'scale', and (), meaning 'root', referring to the underground stems that are covered with scale-like bracts.In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all dryandras to the genus "Banksia" and renamed this species "Banksia lepidorhiza".