Leucospermum rodolentum (salisb. ex Knight) Rourke

Erect to spreading shrubs, to 3.0 m in height, 4.0 m in diam.; with a single main stem at base; trunk 8.0-4.0 cm in diam., bark smooth grey. Flowering stems erect, ascending, 5.0-7.0 mm in diam., covered with a dense grey indumentum of fine crisped hairs. Leaves elliptic to cuneate 0.7-1.5 cm wide, 4.0-6.5 cm long, obtuse or attenuate at base; canescent, covered with a fine, dense indumentum of short, crisped hairs; apex 3-6 dentate, truncate or rounded. Inflorescences globose, 3.0-3.5 cm in diam.; sessile to pedunculate, peduncle 5.0 mm long; 2, 3 or 4 nate, seldom solitary. Involucral receptacle broadly conic depressed, 1.0 cm long, 0.7 cm wide. Involucral bracts ovate acute 5.0-7.0 mm long, 2.0-3.0 mm wide, tightly imbricate, cartilaginous, cinereous. Bracteoles narrowly lanceolate acuminate, 2.0 cm long, 2.0 mm wide, clasping the perianth, thickly lanate proximally, apex puberulous, carmine, margins ciliate. Perianth straight and cylindric in bud, 1.5-2.5 cm long, deep yellow, limbs tinged with green in bud. Perianth tube 5.0 mm long, hyaline, cylindric, glabrous. Perianth claws recurved in the upper half, the 3 adaxial claws glabrescent, margins thinly sericeous; abaxial claw thinly sericeous. Perianth limbs lanceolate acute, 3.0 mm long, 1.0 mm wide, very sparsely sericeous. Style straight, 1.5-2.5 cm long, tapering subterminally, occasionally very slightly abaxially arcuate. Pollen presenter clavate to cylindric-obtuse, 2.0 mm long, stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales subulate, 1.0 mm long, hyaline. Flowering takes place from August to November when the bright yellow, very sweetly scented inflorescences are produced.