sentences:  The fruit is a woody follicle firmly embedded in the woody base of the flower head, and usually containing a single winged seed.First collected by Ludwig Preiss near the Gordon River on 7 November 1840, it was published as "Dryandra preissii" by Carl Meissner in 1845, in the first volume of "Plantae Preissianae".Meissner did not give an etymology for the specific epithet, but it is accepted that the name honours the collector.