sentences:  Flowering occurs from July to September and the follicles are egg-shaped, long and glabrous.This species was first formally described in 1855 Carl Meissner in "Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany" and was given the name "Dryandra ferruginea" from an unpublished description by Richard Kippist, the type material having been collected by James Drummond.The following year, Meisner published a description of "Dryandra runcinata" in "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" and in 1870, George Bentham maintained "D. runcinata", but demoted "D. ferruginea" to "Dryandra proteoides" var.