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Hakea acuminata Haegi

Reference
Fl.Australia 17B:396 (1999)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.5-1.8 m high. Deep white sand, grey sand over granite, loam. Undulating plain.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.8 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 30-100 mm long, 9-38 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire. Inflorescences axillary, cream or yellow. Perianth 10-14 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 34-37 mm long, style glabrous. Follicles 25-31 mm long, 16-21 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 18-21 mm long (including wing), 9-10 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± equally down both lateral sides. Flowers in July. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.