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Hakea eneabba Haegi

Reference
Fl.Australia 17B:396 (1999)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.4-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Sep. Sand over laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.3-1.3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate or whorled, 30-120 mm long, 4-14 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, entire. Inflorescences axillary, yellow; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Perianth 24-27 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 28-31 mm long, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles 22-24 mm long, 11-14 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 15-17 mm long (including wing), 8-10 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± equally down both lateral sides. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Perth.
IMCRA Regions
Central West Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Moora, Three Springs.