Leucospermum tomentosum R.Br.

An erect to semi-erect shrub 0.5-1.0 m in diam., 0.0 cm to 1.0 m in height. Basal branches stout and woody, 2.0-5.0 cm in diam., tending to spread horizontally. Flowering stems erect to horizontally spreading, 4.0-6.0 mm in diam., covered with a dense indumentum of short crisped hairs interspersed with long, slender, erect trichomes. Leaves linear to linear-spathulate, 4.5-6.0 cm long, 3.0-5.0 mm wide; margins involute causing leaves to be broadly canaliculate; loosely ascending imbricate on upper branches, occasionally subsecund on lowermost trailing branches; apex entire or with up to 3 teeth. Leaves covered with a dense canescent indumentum of short, closely adpressed crisped hairs. Inflorescences sessile, globose, 3.0-3.5 cm in diam., solitary, or with 3 to 4 inflorescences per flowering shoot. Involucral receptacle conic-depressed, 1.3 cm long, 1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts lanceolate-acute 5.0 mm long, 3.0 mm wide, cartilaginous, very closely adpressed imbricate; shortly tomentose, the apex crinite, cinereous. Bracteoles linear-obtrullate, 5.0-7.0 mm long, 1.0-2.0 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate, margins ciliate, outer surface tomentose. Perianth 2.0 cm long, straight in bud, tubular, deep yellow throughout; the abaxial and 2 lateral perianth claws sparsely pilose, the adaxial claw glabrous. Perianth tube 4.0-5.0 mm long, glabrous, slightly laterally compressed. Perianth limbs lanceolate acute, 2.0-3.0 mm long, barely differentiated from the perianth claws, outer surface sparsely hirsute to glabrescent. Style straight, slender, 1.7-2.0 cm long, yellow. Pollen presenter cylindric to narrowly ellipsoid 1.5-2.0 mm long; stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales linear-subulate, 1.0 mm long, hyaline.