This Dryandra is actually only found in this small area in the wheat belt of the south western Australia so not only is it, like many other species here, an endemic but a rare one at that. The flowers are quite large - over 6 cm in diameter and in the plant we were shown, grow near the base of the plant.

Recently it has been suggested by two scientists, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele, that their DNA research indicates that all Dryandra species really belong to and are descended from the genus Banksia so this one would become Banksia rufus (since the species name ferruginea is already used for a different Banksia). So I suppose the correct, up-to-date name would be Banksia rufus ssp obliquiloba.

So where would you look up the name of this plant? At present under Dryandra but if the DNA bothering taxonomists have their way there will come a time when the literature and naming of these plants is totally confused. There isn't even a common name which would remain static as Bluebell has done in the UK when taxonomists kept changing its systematic name.

Nice to know that Taxonomists are causing mayhem with the naming of plants down under just like they are here in the UK.