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Hakea victoria J.Drumm.
Royal Hakea

Reference
The Inquirer (1847)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Sparsely branched, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1.5-3 m high. Fl. cream-white, Jul to Oct. White or grey sand over granite or laterite. Rocky slopes, among quartzite rocks.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 50-135 mm long, 40-130 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided. Inflorescences axillary, white or cream; pedicels 6-11 mm long. Perianth 20-25 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 25-30 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 23-28 mm long, 0 mm wide; seed 18-20 mm long (including wing), 9-12 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± equally down both lateral sides. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.