Leucospermum fulgens Rourke

An erect, rounded shrub to 3.0 m in height, up to 4.0 m in diam.; with a single stout main stem up to 0.0 cm in diam.; bark smooth, grey. Flowering stems fairly stout, rigid, 5.0-7.0 mm in diam., covered with a sparse indumentum of fine crisped hairs; soon becoming glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong, 6.0-9.0 cm long, 1.5-2.0 cm broad with 2-4 teeth, usually 3, at the apex; glabrous, coriaceous. Inflorescences sessile to subsessile, peduncle up to 10 cm long; globose to ovoid, 6.0-8.0 cm in diam., usually single but occasionally in groups of 2. Involucral receptacle conic acute, 2.0-4.0 cm long, 1.5 cm broad. Involucral bracts tightly adpressed imbricate, ovate, acute, 0.0 mm long, 7.0-8.0 mm wide, densely tomentose, cartilaginous, cinereous. Bracteoles ovate cuspidate, 6.0 mm long, 4.0 mm broad, very densely lanate. Perianth 3.5-4.0 cm long, pink to orange becoming brilliant crimson with age. Perianth tube 8.0-0.0 mm long, narrow and glabrous proximally, inflated and puberulous distally, becoming constricted at the junction with the perianth claws. Perianth claws villous, the margins beset with long, straight, spreading trichomes; becoming strongly coiled subterminally at anthesis. Perianth limbs lanceolate acute, 5.0 mm long, villous. Anthers sessile, elliptic, 4.5-5.0 mm long, apical boss rounded, yellow. Style 4.6-5.3 cm long, almost straight to slightly adaxially arcuate. Pollen presenter narrowly conic acute, 4.0 mm long, stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales 2.0 mm long, subulate.