Leucospermum spathulatum R.Br.

A prostrate, sprawling shrub with trailing stems, forming dense mats to 3.0 m in diam., seldom exceeding 0.0 cm in height. Flowering stems decumbent, trailing, 2.0-4.0 mm in diam., covered with a dense, short, crisped indumentum interspersed with straight, patent, trichomes; often bearing short side branches. Leaves obovate to spathulate, patent to subsecund, 1.4-3.0 cm long, 7.0-7.0 mm wide, apex entire, occasionally with 2-3 teeth; canescent to glabrescent, usually beset with a fine indumentum of short crisped hairs. Inflorescences depressed globose, 5.0-7.0 cm in diam., solitary or in groups of 2, subsessile to pedunculate, peduncle to 1.0 cm long. Involucral receptacle conic acute, 0.7-1.0 cm long, 5.0-7.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts ovate acute-acuminate, tightly imbricate, cartilaginous tomentose, 7.0 mm long, 4.0 mm wide. Bracteoles ovate acuminate, thickly lanate proximally, 7.0 mm long, 4.0 mm wide, clasping the perianth. Perianth strongly adaxially arcuate, deep orange to crimson. Perianth tube 8.0 mm long, narrowed proximally, becoming ventricose and strongly inflated distally on the adaxial surface. Perianth claws strongly recurved subterminally, sericeous to villous. Perianth limbs ovate acute 3.0 mm long, sericeous. Style 3.0-4.0 cm long, tapering subterminally, upper third bent adaxially, almost at right angles. Pollen presenter cylindric obtuse, 2.0 mm long, stigmatic groove slightly adaxial. Hypogynous scales 3.0-4.0 mm long, linear subulate. The scarlet to crimson inflorescences are produced between September and January but mainly towards the end of October.