sentences:  Flowering occurs from August to November and the follicles are elliptical, long and wide.This species was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name "Dryandra kippistiana" and published the description in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.The specific epithet ("kippistiana") commemorates Richard Kippist, librarian to the Linnean Society of London.