Leucospermum patersonii E.Phillips

A large rounded shrub or small tree to 4.0 m in height; trunk stout, 0.0-0.0 cm in diam. Flowering stems erect, woody, 8.0-0.0 mm in diam., beset with a short dense indumentum of fine crisped hairs interspersed with straight, spreading trichomes. Leaves very broadly oblong to oblong, 5.0-9.0 cm long, 3.0-5.0 cm wide; cordate to auriculate at base; apex rounded with 3-8 teeth; leaves imbricate, glabrous. Inflorescences ovoid to globose, 8.0-9.0 cm in diam., usually solitary, occasionally in groups of 2 or 3; pedunculate, peduncle 1.0-2.0 cm long. Involucral receptacle narrowly conic acute, 4.0-5.0 cm long, 0.7-1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts ovate-acuminate, 1.0 cm long, 0.7 cm wide, tightly adpressed imbricate, cartilaginous, minutely puberulous to glabrous. Bracteoles obovate-cymbiform, apex acuminate; densely lanate proximally, 0.0 mm long, 8.0 mm wide. Perianth 2.5-3.0 cm long, very strongly adaxially curved in bud, orange to crimson. Perianth tube 5.0 mm long, cylindric, glabrous. Perianth claws becoming signoidly curved at anthesis, tapering and becoming strongly recurved subterminally; densely lanate. Perianth limbs ovate, 4.0 mm long, strongly recurved glabrous to hispid. Style 4.5-5.5 cm long, strongly adaxially arcuate subterminally. Pollen presenter obliquely turbinate, 3.0-4.0 mm long, 2.0 mm in diam., stigmatic groove oblique. Hypogynous scales 4.0 mm long, subulate, pale orange. Flowering commences in August and continues until December.