Leucadendron xanthoconus K.Schum.

Shrubs 1-2 m tall, arising from a single stem, erect, dense. Branches erect, slender, scattered, glabrescent; young branches very short-adpressed-pubescent. Leaves up to 6.5 cm long, 6 mm broad, linear-oblong, somewhat falcate, apiculate, twisted near the base, erect, at first thinly covered on both, surfaces by an adpressed-silvery pubescence, glabrescent later. Involucral leaves varying in size and shape, crowded, yellow, exceeding the head by a long way. Male inflorescence 1.3 cm long, 1 cm diam., ellipsoid, apical bracts barren, solitary at the ends of numerous scattered branchlets. Basal bracts 4 mm long, 2 mm broad, about 6 in number, ovate, acute, brown, ciliate, with a small tuft of hairs at the apex. Floral bracts 1.7 mm long, 1 mm broad, densely villous. Floral bud 4.2 mm long, glabrous, bent, yellow, surrounded below by a few long hairs. Perianth tube 1.7 mm long,' glabrous. Claw 1.5 mm long, recurved 180°, glabrous. Limb 1.7 mm long, spoonshaped, hooked, glabrous. Anthers 1.6 mm long, curled upwards. Pollen triangular in polar view with sides 28 µ long and polar depth 21 µ. Stigma abortive, 1 mm long, clavate, minutely bifid, acting as a pollen presenter. Style 3.3 mm long, glabrous, filiform, thickened below. Hypogynous scales 1.7 mm long, acicular, yellow. Nectar seen exuding at the apices of the hypogynous scales. Receptacle 1 cm long, 1.8 mm diam., narrowly clavate. Female inflorescence about 1.8 cm long, 1.1 cm diam., ovoid, with the florets arranged in 8 ascending spirals with about 13 cm each. Basal bracts as in the male. Floral bracts 3 mm long, 5 mm broad, broadly oblong, sub-retuse, densely short-pubescent, ciliate. Floral bud 4 mm long, glabrous, compressed, stigma exposed, surrounded by a few short hairs. Perianth segments imbricated forming a tube 2.8 mm long, glabrous. Claw 1 mm long, recurved 90° or more, glabrous. Limb 0.7 mm long, glabrous, anterior truncate and retuse. Staminodes 0.3 mm long, anterior absent. Ovary 1 mm long, bilobed, ovoid, glabrous, surrounded below by a few short hairs. Style 3 mm long, glabrous, narrowed and bent below. Stigma 0.5 mm broad, oblique. Hypogynous scales 1 mm long, tapering, pale, paleaceous. Nectar not seen. Receptacle 1.1 cm long, 2 mm diam., cylindrical. Mature female head a cone about 3 cm long; 2.2 cm diam., indehiscent, bracts bilobed, pubescent with adjacent bracts arranged in 2 spiral rows. Fruit compressed, 5-8 mm long, 4-6 mm broad, trigonal, narrowly winged, black, pitted, with a few hairs at the basal scar.