sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name "Dryandra longifolia" and published the description in "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London" from material collected near Lucky Bay.The specific epithet ("longifolia") is derived from the Latin words "longus", "long" and "folium", "leaf".In 1996, Alex George described three subspecies of "Dryandra longifolia" in the journal "Nuytsia"