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Hakea cyclocarpa Lindl.
Ramshorn

Reference
Sketch Veg.Swan R. 36 (1840)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spindly, lignotuberous shrub, 1-2.5 m high. Fl. white & red/brown, Aug to Oct. Sand, clay, gravel, laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
Image

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 55-140(-170) mm long, (7-)10-33(-40) mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, entire. Inflorescences axillary, white; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 10-15 mm long, hairy; ovary glabrous; pistil 12-14 mm long, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles 35-40 mm long, 18-22 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 23-29 mm long (including wing), 10-13 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Brookton, Busselton, Capel, Chittering, Dardanup, Donnybrook-Balingup, Gosnells, Harvey, Kalamunda, Manjimup, Mundaring, Murray, Nannup, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Wandering, York.