In 1996, Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges published a new arrangement for the genus, after cladistic analyses yielded a cladogram significantly different from George's arrangement. Thiele and Ladiges' arrangement retained "B. brownii" in series "Spicigerae", placing it in "B." subser. "Occidentales" along with "B. occidentalis" (red swamp banksia), "B. seminuda" (river banksia), "B. verticillata" (granite banksia) and "B. littoralis" (swamp banksia). This arrangement stood until 1999, when George effectively reverted to his 1981 arrangement in his monograph for the "Flora of Australia" series.