sentences:  Like most other Proteaceae, "B. xylothemelia" has proteoid roots, roots with dense clusters of short lateral rootlets that form a mat in the soil just below the leaf litter.These enhance solubilisation of nutrients, thus allowing nutrient uptake in low-nutrient soils such as the phosphorus-deficient native soils of Australia.It has a lignotuber, so is able to resprout after being burned to the ground by bushfire.