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Leucospermum truncatulum
Also called Buxi, Buxifolia, Buxy, Mini Pincushion, Trunculated Leucadendrum
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.
The oval-leaf pincushion can be found from the eastern foothills of the Kogelberg Peak in the west, to the south along the Bot River, along the coast from Hermanus, almost reaching Cape Agulhas in the southeast of its range, north to Bredasdorp northwestwards via Caledon. Plants are mostly found in extensive stands. Across its range the average annual precipitation is between 650 and 1000 mm (25–40 in), most of which falls during the winter half year. The species prefers acidulous and nutrient-poor sands on east- and southward facing slopes from sea level to about 365 m (1200 ft) where grows in a dense sclerophyll vegetation further mainly consisting of other Proteaceae, Ericaceae and the grass-like Restionaceae.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucospermum truncatulum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
