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Leucospermum conocarpum

a shrub or small tree, 6–8 ft. high; branches stout, minutely woolly tomentose and at the same time softly hirsute with long hairs; leaves crowded up to the flower-heads and surrounding them, usually concealing the stem upwards, obovate to oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute, 4–9-toothed at the apex, very rarely entire, each tooth with a blunt callous point, 1 3/4–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 1/2 in. broad, at first more or less hirsute with long soft hairs, then glabrescent with the exception of the villous base and margins, prominently veined; heads golden-yellow, usually solitary, rarely geminate, shortly peduncled, 2–2 3/4 in. long, excluding the styles about 1 1/2–2 in. in diam., with an obscure involucre of few barren bracts; peduncle very stout, up to 1/2 in. long, with ovate subacuminate very hairy bracts; receptacle conic-cylindric, about 1 in. long; involucral bracts caudate-acuminate from an ovate base, 8–10 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, fulvously villous or softly hirsute; floral bracts ovate or obovate, and abruptly contracted into a linear or subulate acumen, densely hirsute to felted; adult flower-bud about 1 1/2 in. long; perianth-tube 4–5 lin. long, more or less finely pubescent above, otherwise glabrous; adaxial and lateral claws permanently connate into a concave or more or less flattened-out flexuous sheath, 9–12 lin. long, like the free abaxial claw loosely and softly hirsute; limbs oblong, subacute, 3 lin. long, densely hirsute; anthers subsessile, oblong, almost 2 lin. long; hypogynous scales linear, 1 1/4 lin. long; ovary oblong, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, greyish-pubescent, surrounded by whitish or yellowish hairs of the same length; style over 1 3/4 in. long, acutely quadrangular above, with secondary less prominent angles between the primary, glabrous; stigma oblong-conical, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, 8-grooved. null