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Hakea recurva Meisn. subsp. recurva

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
Name Status
Current

Tall, pungent shrub or tree, 1.2-6 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Jun to Sep. Red sand or loam, sandy clay over granite or laterite. Granite outcrops, rocky rises, sandstone rocky slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, (1-)3-4(-6) m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, 15-130 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire. Inflorescences axillary, white, cream or yellow; pedicels 7-12 mm long. Perianth 6-9 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 6.5-11 mm long, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles 17-23 mm long, 8-13 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 15 mm long (including wing), 0 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Carnarvon (CAR), Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Coolgardie (COO), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Perth, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Chapman Valley, Coolgardie, Cue, Dalwallinu, Goomalling, Greater Geraldton, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Koorda, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Merredin, Mingenew, Moora, Mount Magnet, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Murchison, Northampton, Nungarin, Perenjori, Sandstone, Shark Bay, Swan, Tammin, Trayning, Victoria Plains, Westonia, Wiluna, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyalkatchem, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.