sentences:  For the next eight years, the species was referred to by the manuscript name "Dryandra" sp.Kamballup (M.Pieroni 20/9/1988).In 1996, Alex George formally published the species as "Dryandra ionthocarpa", the specific epithet coming from the Greek "ionthas" ("shaggy") and "carpos" ("fruit"), in reference to the tuft of hair on each follicle.