Leucospermum parile Knight ex Loudon

An erect to semi-erect rounded shrub, to 1.5 m in height, with a single stout main stem; lower branches often spreading along the ground. Flowering stems erect, terete, villous. Leaves loosely ascending-imbricate; linear to oblong-linear, 4.0-6.0 cm long, 6.0-8.0 mm broad; covered with a short, dense canescent indumentum of short crisped hairs; apex entire or up to 3 toothed. Inflorescences globose to depressed globose, 3.0-3.5 cm in diam., sessile to subsessile; occasionally solitary, usually with two to six inflorescences clustered in the axils of the uppermost leaves of the flowering stem. Involucral receptacle broadly conical to conical-depressed, acute, 1.4 cm long, 1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts glabrous to glabrescent, ovate-acuminate, the acuminate apex patent to subsquarrose; paleaceous to papyraceous in texture, margins occasionally ciliate and the apex shortly crinite. Bracts 1.0 cm long, 0.5 cm wide. Bracteoles lanceolate-acuminate, 1.0 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, lanate proximally on outer surface, glabrous distally, apex crinite. Perianth straight at anthesis 1.5-2.0 cm long, yellow. Perianth tube glabrous, cylindric, slightly compressed laterally 4.0 mm long. Perianth claws 0.9-1.2 cm long, the median posticous claw glabrous, the anticous claw and margins of the two lateral posticous claws pubescent. Perianth limbs narrowly-lanceolate, 4.0 mm long; the posticous limb glabrous the three anticous limbs sparsely sericeous. Style straight 1.5-2.0 cm long. Hypogynous scales 1.5 mm long, hyaline, subulate.