Hakea erecta

Hakea erecta
Hakea erecta growing near Wongan Hills
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Proteales
Family:Proteaceae
Genus:Hakea
Species: H. erecta
Binomial name
Hakea erecta

Hakea erecta is a shrub of the genus Hakea native to Western Australia.

Hakea erecta fruit

Description

Hakea erecta is a rounded shrub which typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 2.6 metres (2 to 9 ft) and has many spreading branches and smooth grey bark. The leaves are 4–10 cm (2–4 in), linear, flat and twisted at the base and end in a sharp point. The pink-cream sweetly scented flowers appear in clusters in the leaf axils mostly in upper branchlets from September to October. The fruit has a smooth surface except for a few tubercles, is oblong in shape with a small pointed beak.[1] [2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

This hakea was first formally described in 1987 by Byron Lamont from a specimen collected near Pingrup and the description was published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.[4] The specific epithet (erecta) is a Latin word meaning "upright"[5] referring to the more or less erect stems, leaves and fruit.[3]

Distribution

It is endemic to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in deep sandy soils often around laterite.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Young, J A. Hakeas of Western Australia:A Field and Identification Guide. ISBN 0-9585778-2-X.
  2. ↑ Holliday, Ivan (2005). Hakeas:A Field and Garden Guide. Reed New Holland. ISBN 1-877069-14-0.
  3. 1 2 "Hakea erecta". State herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hakea erecta". APNI. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 307.
  6. ↑ "Hakea erecta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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