Hakea ferruginea

Hakea ferruginea, commonly known as rusty hakea,[2] is shrub in the family Proteacea. It has flat leaves and white to cream-coloured flowers from late winter to mid-summer and is endemic to Western Australia.

Rusty hakea habit
fruit

Hakea ferruginea
Hakea ferruginea growing near the Stirling Range National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Hakea
Species:
H. ferruginea
Binomial name
Hakea ferruginea
Occurrence data from AVH

Description

Hakea ferruginea is an erect, rounded, non-lignotuberous shrub which typically grows to a height of 1 to 4.5 metres (3 to 15 ft). The branchlets are hairy and the leaves are arranged alternately.[3] The pale green leaf blade is flat, narrowly to broadly egg-shaped or elliptic and is 1.5 to 8.5 centimetres (0.6 to 3.3 in) in length and 1.2 to 2.7 cm (0.47 to 1.06 in) wide.[4] It blooms from July to November and produces white-cream flowers.[3] The solitary inflorescences contain 16 to 20 flowers with a cream-white perianth. After flowering obliquely ovate shaped beaked fruit that are 2 to 3.1 cm (0.79 to 1.22 in) in length and 1.1 to 1.8 cm (0.43 to 0.71 in). The black to brown seeds within have a narrowly ovate or elliptic shape with a wing down one edge.[4]

Taxonomy

Hakea ferruginea was first formally described by the botanist Robert Sweet in 1827 and the description was published in Flora Australasica.[5][6] Hakea repanda R.Br. is a synonym.[7][8] The specific epithet is a Latin word meaning "rust-coloured" or "rusty",[9] referring to the colour of new growth.[4]

Distribution

Rusty hakea is found in a small area in the Wheatbelt and an area along the south coast of the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy, rocky loam or clay soils.[3] The shrub is often part of mallee heath or open forest communities.[4]

Conservation status

Hakea ferruginea is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[3]

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References
  1. "Hakea ferruginea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. "Rusty Hakea". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. "Hakea ferruginea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. "Hakea ferruginea". Fact Sheet. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  5. "Hakea ferruginea". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  6. "Flora Australasica". Internet Archive. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  7. "Hakea ferruginea Sweet". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. Sweet, Robert (1827–1828). Flora Australasica (PDF). Piccadilly: James Ridgway. p. 45. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 168.
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