Leucadendron remotum I.Williams

Shrubs up to 1.7 m, erect, branching from near the base. Branches erect, fairly stout, very-short-pubescent when young, later glabrescent. Branchlets scattered, shorter and more numerous in male plants. Leaves of juveniles 3 cm long, 6 mm broad, oblanceolate, spreading, twisted, thinly adpressed-pubescent. Mature leaves greyish green, sub-glaucous, thinly adpressed-' pubescent soon glabrous, erect, imbricating the stem towards the base, mucro immersed, in male plants 2.9 cm long, 6.5 mm broad, oblanceolate-linear, apex obtuse, narrowing evenly and slightly to the base, in female plants 4.2 cm long, 8 mm broad, linear, apex obtuse, narrowing and sometimes coloured near the base. Involucral leaves similar to the stem leaves, imbricating the base of the head, not numerous, inconspicuous. Male inflorescence 1 cm long, 1.6 cm diam., solitary, terminal, and also at the ends of the branchlets arising below the main inflorescence, flattened above, brown when in bud, becoming yellow in bloom, giving off a very faint smell. Basal bracts 8 mm long, 4.5 mm broad, about 46 cm number, imbricate, ovate, acute, narrowed below, glabrescent, laterally ciliate, brown. Floral bract 7 mm long, 1.25 mm broad, narrowly oblanceolate, apex truncate, brown, ciliate and villous above, glabrous below. Floral bud 1 mm long, curved inwards, pubescent and yellow above, glabrous below and towards the apex of the posterior segment, surrounded at the base by a few long hairs. Perianth tube 7 mm long, glabrous below, sparsely. Pubescent above. Claw 5 mm long, recurved 180°, long-crisped-pubescent Limb 1.7 mm long, linear, sparsely pubescent. Anther 1.5 mm long, linear, de cumbent. Pollen triangular in polar view with sides 40 µ long and blunt angle-polar height 25µ. Stigma abortive, 1.3 mm long, narrowly clavate, minutel cleft, acting as a pollen presenter. Style 1.2 cm long, connate below, glabro µfiliform, narrowing above. Hypogynous scales 4 mm long, acicular, pale. Nect seen at the throat of the perianth tube. Receptacle 3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm diam conical. Female inflorescence solitary, terminal, globose with the yello florets clustered on the domes apex, the base and sides closely surrounded b the brown basal bracts and involucral leaves, giving off a very faint smell. Basa bracts similar to the male, 1.4 mm long, 8.4 mm broad, about 51 cm number glabrescent, laterally ciliate. Floral bract 1.4 cm long, 1.2 cm broad, ovate, brown and retuse at the apex, densely short-pubescent except at the basei where very densely villous. Floral bud 1.4 cm long, pubescent, tapering to th apex where the stigma protrudes, surrounded at the base by a very dense tuft o long hairs. Perianth tube 1 cm long, densely pubescent, deeply divided. Claw mm long, villous. Limb 1.7 mm long, pubescent. Staminode 1 mm long. Ovar 1.5 mm long, pubescent especially above and at the base of the style. Style 1. cm long, glabrous. Stigma 1 mm broad, suboblique, irregular in outline.] Hypogynous scales almost 3 mm long, tapering, broad below, yellow. Receptacle 1 cm long, 6 mm diam., conical. Mature female head dehiscent, 3 cm long, 2.5 cm diam., with purplish brown acute bracts. Fruit a nut, 6.5 mm long, 7.5 mm broad, 5 mm thick, biconvex, smooth, very sparsely pubescen towards the apex.