Hakea macrocarpa explained

Hakea macrocarpa, commonly known as flat-leaved hakea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a tree or shrub with furrowed bark, woolly-hairy branchlets, narrowly linear leaves and cream-coloured to greenish-yellow flowers.

Description

Hakea macrocarpa is a tree or shrub that typically grows to a height of and has furrowed brownish bark and densely woolly-hairy branchlets. The leaves are narrowly linear, long and wide on a petiole is long. The leaves are straight to curved, and densely covered with woolly hairs pressed against the surface at first, later glabrous. Up to 200 flowers are arranged on a floral rachis mostly long, usually with cream-coloured or white woolly hairs pressed agaonst the surface. The flowers are cream-coloured to greenish-yellow, each flower on a pedicel long, the perianth long with a straight or curved style. Flowering mainly occurs from May to August, and the fruit is a follicle long containing a winged seed long and wide with a wing down over half of one side.[2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Hakea macrocarpa was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown in Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.[4] [5] The specific epithet (macrocarpa) means "large-fruited".[6]

Distribution

Flat-leaved hakea grows in red sandy soils on coastal sand dunes, sand dunes, rocky ridges and sandplains in the Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami bioregions of Western Australia, the central Northern Territory and western Queensland.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hakea macrocarpa . Northern Territory Government . 8 November 2023.
  2. Web site: Hakea macrocarpa. 27 October 2018. Electronic Flora of South Australia. Government of South Australia.
  3. Web site: Hakea macrocarpa . Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research . 8 November 2023.
  4. Web site: Hakea macrocarpa . APNI. 8 November 2023.
  5. Book: Brown . Robert . Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae . 1830 . 30 . 8 November 2023.
  6. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 246 . 3rd.