Leucospermum oleifolium R.Br.

An erect, rounded shrub to 1.0 m in height; with a single main stem at base; compact and rigid or loosely branched with suberect stems. Flowering stems 3.0-6.0 mm in diam., villous to tomentose when young, becoming glabrous later. Leaves lanceolate acute to oblong, or ovate obtuse, sessile, glabrous to villous, 4.0-6.0 cm long, 8.0-5.0 mm wide; entire or 2-5 toothed; margin occasionally undulate. Inflorescences turbinate, 2.5-4.0 cm in diam., subsessile 2-5 nate, rarely solitary. Involucral receptacle flat, 2.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts ovate acute to lanceolate acuminate, 9.0-6.0 mm long, 5.0-7.0 mm wide; densely to loosely imbricate; villous to glabrous, with or without a distinctly crinite apex; membranaceous to papyraceous in texture. Bracteoles very narrowly lanceolate to linear, 1.0-3.0 cm long; membranaceous, lanate proximally, pilose distally. Perianth 2.0 cm long, straight; hyaline to pale yellowish green, becoming crimson with age. Perianth tube 8.0 mm long, glabrous, tubular cylindric, inflated distally, narrowing proximally. Perianth claws filiform, becoming equally and strongly reflexed on opening. Perianth limbs elliptic 1.5 mm long, 1.0 mm wide, very sparsely tomentose to glabrous, scarcely differentiated from claws. Style strongly arched and cygneous when developing, elongating and straightening rapidly, 2.5-3.0 cm long, filiform; pale yellow at first becoming crimson with age. Pollen presenter filiform, cylindric, 1.0 mm long, slightly thickened basally; stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales filiform obtuse, hyaline 2.0 mm long. Flowering takes place from August to January with a peak in September and October.