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Hakea nitida R.Br.
Frog Hakea

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:184 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-3 m high. Fl. white/cream-yellow, Jul to Sep. Grey or yellow/brown sand, loam, lateritic clay. Coastal sand dunes, quartzite or granite hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.2-3 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, (15-)20-100 mm long, 7-25 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, entire or shallowly divided. Inflorescences axillary, white or yellow; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 2.5-4 mm long, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles 25-35 mm long, 13-25 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed (22-)24 mm long (including wing), 8-10 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± unequally down each lateral side. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Hampton (HAM), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Hampton, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Hampton, Katanning, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Eucla, WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Beverley, Dumbleyung, Dundas, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Wickepin.