Protea mundii leaves

The simple leaves of Protea mundii are alternate to scattered along the stems. The leaf-shape is elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate. The leaf tips vary between acutely to bluntly pointed or slightly rounded, the base tapers and the margins are entire. The sessile leaves have no petioles (stalks).

The blades are bright to pale green, only velvety when young and sometimes pink. The old, generally hairless leaves may sometimes have long hairs near the leaf bases.

The leaf midrib may be reddish near its base where it broadens abruptly, the presence of a short stalk debatable. The midrib is cream towards the leaf-tip where it peters out to nearly invisible. Some straight, lateral veins ascend to the margins without visibly reaching them.

The leaves are from 6 cm to 12 cm long and from 2 cm to 4 cm wide (Venter, 2012; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Rourke, 1980; iNaturalist).