Since 1998, American botanist Austin Mast has been publishing results of ongoing cladistic analyses of DNA sequence data for the subtribe Banksiinae, which includes "Banksia". With respect to "B. prionotes", Mast's results are fairly consistent with those of both George and Thiele and Ladiges. Series "Crocinae" appears to be monophyletic, and "B. hookeriana" is confirmed as "B. prionotes" closest relative. Overall, however, the inferred phylogeny is very different from George's arrangement. Early in 2007, Mast and Thiele initiated a rearrangement of "Banksiinae" by publishing several new names, including subgenus "Spathulatae" for the species of "Banksia" that have spoon-shaped cotyledons; in this way they also redefined the autonym "B." subgenus "Banksia". They have not yet published a full arrangement, but if their nomenclatural changes are taken as an interim arrangement, then "B. prionotes" is placed in subgenus "Banksia".