Leucospermum parile

Leucospermum parile is a rounded shrub, of up to 1+1⁄2 m (4.9 ft) high that is assigned to the family Proteaceae. It has narrow, grey felty leaves of about 2 cm (0.79 in) long and 7 mm (0.28 in) wide, with rich yellow, globular, well-scented flower heads of about 3 cm (1.2 in) across. It grows in pure white sand in the sandveld of a very small area in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is called Malmesbury pincushion in English and Malmesburyluisie in Afrikaans. It flowers from July till November.

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The Malmesbury pincushion is a more or less upright, rounded shrub, of up to 1+1⁄2 m (4.9 ft) high, that develops from a single and stout stem. Many of the lowest branches spread along the ground, while the flowering branches are upright, round in cross-section, and felty hairy. The leaves are slightly pointing upwards and somewhat overlapping, line-shaped or broadly line-shaped, 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) long and 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) wide and are covered in a dense grey layer of short cringy hairs. The tip may be entire or carry up to 3 teeth. The flower heads, that occur between July and November, are strongly scented, globular or slightly flattened on top, 3–3+1⁄2 cm (1.2–1.4 in) in diameter, without a stalk or nearly so, and occur in clusters of one to six together near the tip of the flowering branches. The common base of the flowers in the same head is broadly cone-shaped, with a pointy tip, about 14 mm (0.55 in) high and 10 mm (0.39 in) across. The bracts subtending the flower head quickly become hairless, are reddish brown, about 1 cm (0.39 in) long and 1⁄2 cm (0.20 in) wide, papery in consistency, oval in shape with a pointy tip, which may be upright or somewhat recurved and sometimes with a thin tuft of stiff hairs, and sometimes with a regular row of hairs along the rim. The bracts subtending the individual flower is lance-shaped with a pointy tip, 10 mm long and 3 mm wide, the outside woolly near the base and hairless higher up except for a tuft of stiff hair at the tip. The rich yellow, 4-merous perianth is straight in the bud and 1+1⁄2–2 cm (0.59–0.79 in) long. The lower part, where the lobes remain merged when the flower has opened (called tube), is hairless, cylinder-shaped, but slightly compressed sideways and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. The lobes in the middle part (or claws), where the perianth is split lengthwise, are 9–12 mm (0.35–0.47 in) long, the claw facing the rim of the flower head hairless, the other three softly hairy. The upper part, which enclosed the pollen presenter in the bud consists of four narrowly lance-shaped limbs are about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, the one facing the rim of the head hairless and the three with few glandular hairs. From the perianth emerges a straight style of 1+1⁄2–2 cm (0.6–0.8 in) long. The ovary is subtended by four opaque awl-shaped scales of about 1+1⁄2 mm (0.06 in) long. The flowers of Leucospermum parile are sweetly scented.