sentences:  Flowering occurs from January to May or from July to December and the fruit is an egg-shaped follicle long.This species was first described in 1840 by John Lindley in "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony" and was given the name "Dryandra stuposa", from specimens collected in the 1830s by James Drummond.No etymology was given, but it is now accepted that it comes from the Latin "stupposus" ("covered with coarse, matted hairs"), in reference to the silky-woolly hairs on the involucral bracts.