consistency. The middle part (or claws), where the perianth is split lengthwise is curled back in the upper half. While the claw facing the edge of the head is thinly silky hairy, the remaining three claws quickly loose any hair that might be there in the bud. The upper part (or limbs), which enclosed the pollen presenter in the bud, consists of four lance-shaped with a pointy tip, are still tinged with green in bud, are about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) wide, and carries very few silky hairs. From the perianth emerges a straight style of 1½–2½ cm (0.6–1.0 in), that tapers near the tip, sometimes curves slightly away from the center of the head. The thickened part at the tip of the style called pollen presenter is hoof-shaped to bluntly cylinder-shaped, about 2 mm (0.08 in) long, with a groove that functions as the stigma across the very tip. The ovary is subtended by four opaque, awl-shaped scales of about 1 mm long. Differences with related species L. rodolentum can be distinguished from other species by its tall, up to 3.0 m high, upright habit and its grey felty elliptic to wedge-shaped leaves of ¾–1½ cm wide. It can be distinguished from L. parile, which has red pointed bracts. Taxonomy The sandveld pincushion was first described by Henry Cranke Andrews in 1803. He had based his description on the living flowering plants, that he had studied in George Hibbert's conservatory at Clapham, London in 1802. These had probably been grown from seeds, that had been collected by Francis Masson. However, the name Protea candicans had already been used by Carl Thunberg in 1800 for the plant that is now called Paranomus candicans. In 1809, Richard Anthony Salisbury proposed the name Leucadendrum rodolentum in a book published by Joseph Knight titled On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae, that contained an extensive revision of the Proteaceae attributed to Salisbury. In 1818 Robert Sweet combined Andrew's species name with the genus name that Robert Brown had proposed to Leucospermum candicans, which is invalid because Andrew's epithet was not available. John Patrick Rourke made the correct combination Leucospermum rodolentum In 1969. L. rodolentum has been assigned to the section Leucospermum. The species name rodolentum means ″smelling like roses″. Distribution, habitat and ecology The sandveld pincushion can naturally be found from