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Hakea hastata Haegi

Reference
Fl.Australia 17B:394 (1999)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Open, erect shrub, 1.5-3 m high. Fl. white, Sep to Oct. Yellow-grey sand, yellow clay, red-brown sandy loam, clay, gravel, laterite. Hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 20-35(-47) mm long, 8-14(-24) mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest below the middle, entire. Inflorescences axillary, cream; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Perianth 2-3 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 3-4 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 16-20 mm long, 9-12 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 11-14 mm long (including wing), 5-6 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cuballing, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Katanning, Kent, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Pingelly, Wagin, Wickepin, Woodanilling.