Leucospermum secundifolium
species of plant
Leucospermum secundifolium is a low, evergreen shrub that grows along the ground, the tip of the branches slightly rising, which has been assigned to the family Proteaceae. It has narrowly elliptic leaves with a distinct leafstalk, and few-flowered and very small heads of 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) across. It is called stalked pincushion in English. The sweetly scented flower heads may be found around early December. It is an endemic species that only grows in a small area of the Western Cape province of South-Africa.
Description
Leucospermum secundifolium is a low shrub that grows along the ground with the tips rising up, that has very slender and rather diffuse stems of 1½–2 cm in diameter. These are initially covered in felty or woolly hairs, which are soon lost. The initially thickly felty or woolly elliptic leaves soon loose these hairs, are 5–8 cm (2−3¼ in) long and ¾–1½ cm (0.3–0.6 in) wide, have a stalk of 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) long at their base, a rounded tip with one, sometimes three bony teeth and horny margins that are sometimes rolled inwards. The alternately set leaves are upright at right angles to the branches.
The very small globe-shaped flower heads of 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) across are mostly individually set in the axils of leaves near the tips of the branches on a thickly felty or woolly stalk of ½–1½ cm (0.2–0.6 in) long, and contains twelve to thirty flowers.
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