sentences:  This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name "Dryandra plumosa" and published the description in "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London" from material collected near Lucky Bay.The specific epithet ("plumosa") is from a Latin word meaning "covered with feathers", referring to the bracts.In 1996, Alex George described two subspecies of "Dryandra plumosa" in the journal "Nuytsia"