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Hakea divaricata L.A.S.Johnson
Needlewood

Reference
Contr.New South Wales Natl.Herb. 3:93 (1962)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 2-6 m high. Fl. cream. Sand, limestone, sandstone.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 2-6 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, glabrous; lamina terete, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib. Inflorescences axillary, cream or yellow; pedicels 7-10 mm long. Perianth 5.5-9 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 15-22 mm long, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles 23-40 mm long, 8-14 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 19-32 mm long (including wing), 7-11 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gibson Desert (GD) or Central Ranges (CR) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Ranges, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert.
IBRA Subregions
Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
East Pilbara, Ngaanyatjarraku, Wiluna.