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Leucospermum fulgens; photograph (c) linkie, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) linkie, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2019-10-27

Leucospermum fulgens Rourke

Potberg Pincushion

Proteaceae · Cape Provinces

No habitat climate
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Summary

Leucospermum fulgens is an evergreen, upright shrub of up to 3 m (10 ft) high, from the family Proteaceae. It has hairless and leathery inverted lance-shaped to oblong leaves tipped with mostly three teeth and globe- to egg-shaped flowerheads of 6–8 cm in diameter, that consist of pink to orange, later crimson flowers. From the center of the flowers emerge almost straight styles that jointly give the impression of a pincushion. It is called Potberg pincushion in English. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Leucospermum fulgens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Leucospermum

Leucospermum, commonly known as pincushions, is a genus of evergreen upright, sometimes creeping shrubs that is assigned to the Proteaceae, with currently 48 known species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Leucospermum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 11 of the 24 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-34.422, 20.632 · in the densest population, 23 records (96% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 24 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 11 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 11 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 24 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) linkie, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).

Other Leucospermum 29 in the reference

Leucospermum bolusii Leucospermum bolusii Gordon's Bay Pincushion Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloLeucospermum calligerum Leucospermum calligerum Arid Pincushion Photo: CC BY, mariusLeucospermum catherinae Leucospermum catherinae Catherine-wheel Pincushion Photo: CC BY, Justin PonderLeucospermum conocarpodendron Leucospermum conocarpodendron Tree Pincushion Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloLeucospermum cordifolium Leucospermum cordifolium Pincushion Photo: CC BY, Adele SLLeucospermum cuneiforme Leucospermum cuneiforme Wart-stemmed Pincushion Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van BerkelLeucospermum erubescens Leucospermum erubescens Oudtshoorn Pincushion Photo: CC BY, ChristinaLeucospermum formosum Leucospermum formosum Handsome Leucadendrum Photo: CC BY, Shaun SwanepoelLeucospermum glabrum Leucospermum glabrum Outeniqua Pincushion Photo: CC BY, Karen EichholzLeucospermum grandiflorum Leucospermum grandiflorum Grey-leaf Fountain Pincushion Photo: CC BY, biogeekLeucospermum gueinzii Leucospermum gueinzii Kloof Fountain Pincushion Photo: CC0, author not statedLeucospermum heterophyllum Leucospermum heterophyllum Trident Pincushion Photo: CC BY-SA, James Deacon all 30 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Proteaceae
Described by
Rourke
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
24 in range · 11 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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