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Hakea cinerea R.Br.
Ashy Hakea

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:186 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or rounded, rigid, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.7-2.5 m high. Fl. green-yellow/yellow, Aug to Nov. White or yellow sand, gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.7-2.4 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 50-155 mm long, 5-15(-18) mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire. Inflorescences axillary, yellow; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 10-13 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 17-23 mm long, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles 17-20 mm long, 6-9 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 12-13 mm long (including wing), 4-5 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± equally down both lateral sides. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dundas, Esperance, Ravensthorpe.