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Hakea florida R.Br.

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:183 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, bushy shrub, 0.9-2.5 m high. Fl. white-cream, Oct to Dec or Jan. Sand, loam, clayey sand, gravel, laterite, granite. Hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 15-70 mm long, 2-25 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle or more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided. Inflorescences axillary, white; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 4-5.5 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 24-40 mm long, 15-23 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 16-20 mm long (including wing), 10-14 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Denmark, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Manjimup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.