sentences:  Flowering occurs from May to June or from November to January and the fruit is a glabrous, egg-shaped to elliptical follicle long.This species was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra drummondii" and published the description in Lehmann's "Plantae Preissianae" from specimens collected near the Swan River Colony by James Drummond.The specific epithet ("drummondii") honours the collector of the type specimens.