Leucospermum secundifolium Rourke

A low, prostrate, decumbent shrub, with slender rather diffuse stems, trailing over the ground. Stems very slender, 1.5-2.0 cm in diam., new growths villous to lanate, but soon quite glabrous. Leaves glabrous, petiolate (petiole 1.0-2.0 cm long) elliptic obtuse, 5.0-8.0 cm long, 0.7-1.6 cm wide; apex obtuse with a single callus tooth, or occasionally 3 toothed; margins horny, occasionally involute on upper surface. Leaves secund, arising at right angles to the stems, young leaves thickly villous to lanate, soon glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, borne at the apices of the flowering shoots, usually solitary. Inflorescence globose, 1.0-1.5 cm in diam.; pedunculate, peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long, very thickly villous to lanate. 1.5 mm in diam. Inflorescences 12-30 flowered. Involucral receptacle depressed globose, 2.0 mm in diam., very much reduced. Involucral bracts lanceolate acuminate, 6.0 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad; in a single series. Bracteoles lanceolate to broadly ovate, apex acuminate, somewhat cartilaginous, very thickly villous, becoming considerably enlarged (to 1.0 cm long) and woody after pollination. Perianth 1.6 cm long, straight. Perianth tube 4.0-5.0 mm long, cylindric, glabrous proximally, villous distally. Perianth claws slender, 0.75 mm wide, villous; all 4 perianth claws becoming equally reflexed in the subterminal region at anthesis. Perianth limbs lanceolate elliptic, 2.0 mm long, 1.0 mm broad, sparsely villous to tomentose. Style filiform 1.4 cm long, tapering very slightly in the subterminal region. Pollen presenter clavate obtuse 1.0 mm long, stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales subulate 0.5 mm long, hyaline. Flowering takes place in early December.