Compilation
Protea aulacea

shrub, 2 to 6 ft. high; leaves linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate-cuneate, obtuse to very obtuse with a minute callous apiculus, flat, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 1 1/2–5 lin. broad, venation raised, distinct in the wider leaves; male racemes 1–2 in. long, rather stiff; bracts 1 1/2–2 lin. long, equalling or exceeding the pedicels; perianth whitish or pale yellow, 3–3 1/2 lin. long including the 2–2 1/4 lin.-long limb; anthers about 1 lin. long, usually at length recurved; style 2 1/2–3 lin. long, very slender; female heads 2/3–1 in. high and 1–1 1/2 in. across; involucral branches not bearing flowers, more or less fused below into a shallow receptacle, quite glabrous, at length hard and woody; dorsal leaves linear-lanceolate and acute to spathulate and obtuse, 6–12 lin. long; central axis stout, ending in a sharp point, 4–6 lin. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–1 lin. long; perianth 4 lin. long including the slightly more than 1 lin.-long spreading segments; nuts quadrangular, obovoid, dorsally more convex than ventrally, about 2 1/2 lin. long, angles prominent, lateral fringed all round with a fulvous silky spreading beard up to 2 lin. long, dorsal and ventral angles and the faces between them shortly tomentose, faces obliquely and prominently veined. null