Leucospermum truncatum (Meisn.) Rourke

Erect, rounded, well branched shrubs to 2.0 m in height, with a single main stem. Flowering stems stiffly erect, 5.0 mm in diam., covered with a dense indumentum of fine crisped hairs. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly cuneate, glabrous, 4.5-9.0 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, apex truncate, usually tridentate. Inflorescences globose, 3.0-4.0 cm in diam., 2 or 3 nate, rarely solitary; pedunculate, peduncle to 2.0 cm long. Involucral receptacle conic acute, 0.8-1.5 cm long, 0.8-1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts broadly ovate acuminate, 0.8-1.0 cm long, 0.6 cm wide, cartilaginous, imbricate, densely tomentose lo lanate. Bracteoles broadly obovate, cuspidate 7.0 mm long, 5.0 mm wide, densely lanate. Perianth 1.2-1.8 cm long, golden-yellow. Perianth tube 5.0 mm long puberulous distally becoming glabrous proximally and narrowing to half the distal diameter. Perianth claws thickly villous to densely lanate. Perianth limbs elliptic 2.5 mm long, villous. Style 1.8-3.5 mm long, straight or somewhat adaxially incurved. Pollen presenter 1.0-2.0 mm long, cylindric obtuse to clavate; stigmalic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales linear, 1.0 mm long. Flowering takes place from August to December. On opening, the perianths and styles are bright yellow but become orange with age.