Global InformationLeucospermum truncatulum information
| Leucospermum truncatulum | |
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Conservation status
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 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Leucospermum |
| Species: | L. truncatulum
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucospermum truncatulum (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke (1967)
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Leucospermum truncatulum is a slender, upright, evergreen, hardly branching shrub of up to 2 m (6 ft) high, with felty inverted egg-shaped to oval, leaves with entire margins of 1–2½ cm (0.4–1.0 in) long and ½–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) wide. It has small globe-shaped, at first yellow, later pinkish flower heads of 1½–2 cm (0.6-0.8 in) in diameter, without a stalk, usually crowded with two to eight together near the end of the stems. It is known as oval-leaf pincushion in English, and patrysbos or kleinkopspeldekussing in Afrikaans. It is an endemic species of the south of the Western Cape province of South Africa, and flowers between August and December.[2][3]
- ^ Rebelo, A.G.; Mtshali, H.; von Staden, L. (2020). "Leucospermum erubescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T113172149A157948997. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T113172149A157948997.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b Rourke, John Patrick (1970). Taxonomic Studies on Leucospermum R.Br (PDF). pp. 197–200.
- ^ "Leucospermum truncatulum". SANBI PlantZ A.