Family: Proteaceae
Plant: An erect multi-stemmed shrub with lignotuber 1.5-2.5m high and with persistent brown hairs on its branches.
Flowers: Tiny white, irregular flowers, with a prominent projecting style; borne in clusters of 12-40 florets along the branchlets in the axils of the leaves.
Flowering: September-November.
Fruit: Woody ovoid follicle, 2-3cm long and 1.5-2cm wide with a short point and warty surface.
Leaves: Broad lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5-12cm long and up to 3cm wide, tough with a hard tip, three parallel veins and prominent net veins. The new growth is orange-tan.
Habitat: Heathland and dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Broad lanceolate leaves with 3 prominent parallel veins and net veins. Woody follicle. Note: You may come across a plant that is almost identical to Hakea laevipes. This is H. dactyloides, a plant that differs from H. laevipes only in that it is single-stemmed and does not have the persistent brown hairs on its branches. H. dactyloides rarely survives after a bushfire.
Name:
Hakea After the German patron of botany Baron Hake of Hanover
laevipes From Latin = smooth-stalk
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Grey, Brown |
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Other Features |
Woody, Wrinkled |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Spoon-like |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked, Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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