sentences:  Flowering occurs in August and the fruit is a mostly glabrous, egg-shaped follicle long.This banksia was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra brownii" and published the description in Lehmann's "Plantae Preissianae".In 2007 Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus "Banksia" but as there was already a plant named "Banksia brownii", Mast and Thiele chose the specific epithet "brunnea".