sentences:  Brown published a description of the species in 1810, naming it "Dryandra armata" in the "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London".The specific epithet ("armata") is from the Latin "armatus" meaning "armed", in reference to the sharply serrated leaves.Thirty years later, John Lindley published a purported new species, which he named "Dryandra favosa", published in "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony".