Leucospermum tottum R.Br.

An erect, much branched shrub 1.0-2.0 m in diam., with a single main stem and somewhat horizontally spreading branches. Flowering stems held horizontally, 5.0-7.0 mm in diam., thinly pilose to glabrescent, reddish tinted. Leaves sessile, glabrous, lanceolate acute to oblong linear, occasionally cordate at base, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, 2.5-6.0 cm long; apex usually entire, occasionally with 2 or 3 teeth; leaves widely spaced, patent. Inflorescences usually solitary, broadly depressed conic, becoming discoidal on opening, 9.0-5.0 cm in diam.; pedunculate, peduncle 2.0-3.0 cm long. Involucral receptacle narrowly conic, 3.0-4.0 cm long, 4.0 mm broad. Involucral bracts broadly ovate to ovate acuminate 4.0-7.0 mm wide, 1.0-1.5 cm long, expanded into 2 membranaceous wings in the proximal half; glabrous but with ciliate margins, patent to very loosely imbricate. Bracteoles broadly ovate, 5.0 mm long, 8.0 mm wide, softly membranaceous, lanate proximally, puberulous to glabrous distally, apices acuminate. Perianth 4.0-4.5 cm long, pale pink. Perianth tube 7.0 mm long, glabrous to very sparsely pilose, slightly laterally compressed. Perianth claws 1.0 mm wide, thinly pilose, the 3 adaxial claws fused into a sheath, becoming very tightly coiled on opening in the subterminal region. Perianth limbs ovate, 3.0 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, dull carmine to brownish, sparsely tomentose. Anthers subsessile, ovate to lanceolate, 2.0 mm long. Style 5.0 cm long, slightly adaxially curved, straightening as the inflorescence ages, eventually projecting at right angles to the receptacle. Pol/en presenter ovoid acute, 1.0-1.5 mm in diam., adaxial surface oblique, stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales subulate linear, 2.0 mm long, hyaline. Flowering takes place from September to January.