Leucospermum hamatum Rourke

A prostrate sprawling shrub forming dense mats 1-3 m in diam., up to 100 mm in height with several stout (to 25 mm thick) branches radiating horizontally along ground, from a single stout main trunk up to 45 mm in diam. Flowering branches slender, trailing, frequently dichotomous, 2 mm in diam., very sparsely villous, usually bearing a single terminal inflorescence and several axillary inflorescences. Leaves secund, narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, 45-65 mm long, 8-18 mm wide, shortly petiolate, petiole to 5 mm long; apex usually tridentate occasionally entire; sparsely puberulous, later glabrous. Inflorescence turbinate, 15-20 mm in diam., consisting of 4 to 7 flowers apparently arranged in a single whorl; pedunculate, peduncle 10-20 mm long. Involucre either absent or reduced to 3 or 4 bracts, lanceolate-acute to acuminate, 7-10 mm long, 2-8 mm wide, sparsely puberulous. Floral bracts ovate acuminate, conduplicate, tightly clasping the base of the perianth, 10-15 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, sparsely puberulous externally, margins puberulously fimbriate. Perianth very strongly adaxially curved, 10-14 mm long; tube utriculose, much inflated and swollen distally to 5 mm in diam., glabrous; claws very reduced and tightly adaxially curved, broadened proximally, tapering distally, the three adaxial perianth segments incompletely fused, 4 mm long, the free abaxial segment 5-6 mm long; outer surface glabrous but margins and the two adaxial sinuses at junction with perianth tube lanately fimbriate; limbs lanceolate-cymbiform, acute, 2 mm long, outer surface granulate-glabrescent. Anthers 4, sessile, arising from a prominently swollen cushion of carnose connective. Style 18-20 mm long, strongly adaxially cygneous, subterminal region tapered, retrorsely barbed, becoming sparsely granulate basally. Pollen presenter conic-acute, 2 mm long, stigmatic groove terminal. Ovary not differentiated from style, minutely puberulous 1 mm long. Hypogynous scales linear-obtuse, 2 mm long. Fruit a minutely puberulous, cylindric, greyish-white achene, broadly emarginate at base.