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Hakea falcata R.Br.

Reference
Prodr. Suppl. 29 (1830)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, loose, non-lignotuberous shrub, 2-4 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow/white-pink, Sep to Nov. Yellow-grey peaty sand, sandy clay. Winter-wet depressions.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 June 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-4 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, 30-125 mm long, 3-15 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire. Inflorescences axillary, cream; pedicels 5-6 mm long. Perianth 3-4.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 4-6.5 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 20-30 mm long, 7-14 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 17-20 mm long (including wing), 5-7 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Cranbrook, Denmark, Kent, Manjimup, Nannup, Plantagenet.