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Hakea minyma Maconochie

Reference
Trans.Roy.Soc.South Australia 97:130 (1973)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Rounded shrub, 1.2-3(-5) m high. Fl. pink-cream-white, Aug to Nov. Yellow or red sand, clay, gravel. Sandplains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-5(-6) m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, (40-)80-190 mm long, (3.5-)4-7(-8) mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire. Inflorescences axillary, cream or pink; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long. Perianth 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil (4.6-)5.5-6 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 15-20 mm long, 9-13 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 12-21 mm long (including wing), 6-9 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Gascoyne (GAS), Central Ranges (CR), Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Carnegie, Central, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Mann-Musgrave Block, Merredin, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Dalwallinu, Greater Geraldton, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Koorda, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Moora, Morawa, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Narembeen, Ngaanyatjarraku, Northampton, Perenjori, Sandstone, Westonia, Wiluna, Wyalkatchem, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.