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Hakea horrida R.M.Barker

Reference
J.Adelaide Bot.Gard. 13: 102-103 (1990)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading or dense, intricately branched, rigid shrub, 0.6-2 m high, 0.7-2 m wide. Fl. white-yellow, Aug to Oct. Sand, loam, gravel, laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.6-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 40-70(-100) mm long, glabrous; lamina terete, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib. Inflorescences axillary, white or yellow; pedicels 7-8 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 5-8 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 15-20 mm long, 10-15 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 9-13 mm long (including wing), 5-8 mm wide, the wing continuous or discontinuous, marginal, extending ± unequally down each lateral side. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Gnowangerup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.