Leucospermum vestitum (Lam.) Rourke

A stiffly erect to spreading shrub to 2.5 m in height, up to 3.0 m in diam., with a single stout main stem; bark smooth, grey. Flowering stems 0.5-0.8 cm in diam., stiffly erect to horizontally spreading, thinly puberulous. Leaves oblong to elliptic to narrowly ovate, 5.0-7.5 cm long, 1.0-3.0 cm wide, glabrous, sessile, truncate or cordate at base, apex entire or with 2-4 teeth; loosely imbricate. Inflorescences ovoid to globose, 7.0-9.0 cm in diam., usually borne singly. Involucral receptacle very narrowly conical-acute, 4.0-5.0 cm long, 0.75-1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts broadly ovate-acute to acuminate 1.0-1.5 cm long, 0.5-1.0 cm broad, loosely patent, membranous, glabrous, pale green and shiny in fresh state, margins ciliate. Bracteoles ovate acuminate, membranous, clasping the perianth tube, 1.5 cm long, 0.5-0.7 cm broad, glabrous, or minutely puberulous, margins ciliate. Perianth 3.5 cm long, orange on opening becoming brilliant carmine with age. Perianth tube 6.0 mm long, glabrous, cylindric becoming slightly compressed laterally. Perianth claws sigmoid after anthesis, coiled subterminally, median adaxial claw glabrous, margins of the two lateral adaxial claws beset with erect, straight silky trichomes, the abaxial claw densely beset with straight silky trichomes. Perianth limbs ovate 4.0-5.0 mm long, 1.0 mm wide, beset with long, straight silky trichomes. Anthers ovate 3.0 mm long, subsessile, filament 1.0 mm long. Style 5.0-6.0 cm long, the upper third adaxially arcuate. Pollen presenter obliquely ovoid acute, 3.0 mm long, stigmatic groove in a raised terminal papilla. Hypogynous scales 1.5-2.0 mm long, linear, obtuse, cream. Flowering commences as early as July in warm localities and continues until January, with a peak in October and November.