sentences:  Flowering occurs from July to November and the follicles are oblong to egg-shaped, long and sparsely hairy.This species was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra hewardiana" and published the description in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" from specimens collected by James Drummond.The specific epithet ("hewardiana") honours the English botanist Robert Heward (1791–1877).