sentences:  On 11 October 1994, Alex George collected what would later become the type specimen, from a location on the Holt Rock South Road, north of Newdigate-Lake King Road, at .Two years later, George published a formal description of the species in "Nuytsia" 10(3), placing it in genus "Dryandra", subgenus "Dryandra" and series "Armatae".He gave it the specific name "xylothemelia", from the Greek "xylon" ("wood") and "themelios" ("foundation"), in reference to species' lignotuber, the possession of which distinguishes it from its close relative "B. cirsioides"; thus the full name of the species was for a time "Dryandra xylothemelia" A.S.George.