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Hakea stenophylla R.Br. subsp. stenophylla

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, 2-5 m high, fruiting valve with red-brown wood zone 1.5-2.5 mm wide; seed covering about 3/4 valve surface. Fl. cream-white, Jun to Jul. Red sand or sandy loam, limestone. Red sandhills or coastal sand dunes, usually with spinifex.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 27 March 1998
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, 40-125 mm long, 1-8 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire. Inflorescences axillary, white or cream; pedicels 5-6 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long, hairy; ovary glabrous; pistil 7-14 mm long, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles 30-45 mm long, 20-26 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 17-29 mm long (including wing), 9.5-16 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± unequally down each lateral side. Flowers in June or July. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Carnarvon (CAR) or Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Pilbara, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Cape Range, Edel, Geraldton Hills, Roebourne, Wooramel.
IMCRA Regions
Pilbara (nearshore).
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Carnarvon, Exmouth, Northampton, Shark Bay, Upper Gascoyne.