Hakea ferruginea
Hakea ferruginea growing near the Stirling Range National Park
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Hakea ferruginea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Rusty Hakea". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Hakea ferruginea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. 1 2 3 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. Piccadilly: James Ridgway. p. 45. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 168.
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