Leucospermum cordatum E.Phillips

A low trailing shrub 5.0-5.0 cm in height, forming loose diffuse mats 1.0-2.0 m in diam., with a single main stem at base, trunk to 3.0 cm in diam., bark smooth, grey. Flowering stems slender, sprawling horizontally or trailing, 3.0-4.0 mm in diam., sparsely puberulous with soft, erect, spreading trichomes. Leaves ovate, cordate to auriculate at base, 3.0-5.5 cm long, 1.0-2.5 cm broad, apex entire; leaves patent, widely spaced, puberulous at first with a dense, short indumentum of fine crisped hairs, soon glabrous. Inflorescences depressed globose, 3.0-4.0 cm in diam.; pedunculate, peduncle 2.0-5.0 cm long, 2.0-3.0 mm in diam. Involucral receptacle conic depressed, 7.0 mm long, 7.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts ovate acute to abruptly acute, 5.0 mm broad, 7.0-0.0 mm long, imbricate, cartilaginous, softly tomentose, margins densely ciliate. Bracteoles obovate 8.0-0.0 mm long, 5.0-6.0 mm wide, apex abruptly acuminate; cartilaginous, lanate proximally, margins thickly ciliate. Perianth 1.5-1.8 cm long, pale cream to hyaline, strongly adaxially curved in bud. Perianth tube cylindric, 5.0 mm long, glabrous. Perianth claws hyaline, beset with long, straight spreading trichomes (2.0-3.0 mm), the median adaxial claw glabrous to glabrescent; claws narrowing distally to half their proximal width. Perianth limbs elliptic, 4.0 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, very strongly recurved, villous. Style strongly adaxially arcuate, tapering subterminally, 2.0-2.5 mm long; white or tinged pale pink. Pollen presenter narrowly conic acute geniculate, 2.5 mm long, pink fading to white. Hypogynous scales linear obtuse, 3.0 mm long. The pale cream inflorescences with pink flushed styles are produced between July and December but the peak of the flowering period is from September to November.