Leucospermum innovans Rourke

An erect, rounded shrub to 1.0 m in diam. Stems arising from a woody persistent rootstock, up to 0.0 cm in diam. Flowering stems very straight, erect and slender, 5.0 mm in diam., covered with a dense indumentum of fine crisped hairs, interspersed with numerous long (3.0-4.0 mm) straight hairs. Leaves obovate, very broadly cuneate to cuneate, 7.0-0.0 cm long, 3.0-5.0 cm broad, narrowing to a distinct petiolar region; apex rounded to truncate, with 5 to 10 teeth, occasionally deeply incised; glabrous but with a dense crisped indumentum in the petiolar region. Inflorescences globose, 8.0-9.0 cm in diam., sessile or pedunculate, peduncle to 1.5 cm long. Involucral receptacle cylindric 3.0 cm long, 1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts broadly ovate acute, imbricate, cartilaginuous 1.0 cm long, 0.8 cm wide; outer surface densely velutinous, apex cinereous. Bracteoles ovate-obtrullate, acute, very densely lanate proximally, velutinous distally, softly cartilaginous; 7.0 mm long, 5.0 mm wide. Perianth tube 0.0-2.0 mm long, ventricose distally, becoming narrowed proximally, laterally compressed; 5.0 mm in diam. distally, 2.0 mm in diam. proximally; glabrous proximally becoming sparsely villous distally. Perianth claws covered with a dense villous indumentum interspersed with long (3.0-5.0 mm), straight hairs. Perianth limbs very narrowly lanceolate elliptic, 5.0 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, with a short, dense, villous indumentum, interspersed with long, straight trichomes. The adaxial limb less densely pubescent than the 3 abaxial limbs. Style 5.0 cm long, slightly adaxially arcuate tapering subterminally. Pollen presenter narrowly conic acute, 2.0 mm long, 1.0 mm wide; stigmatic groove terminal.