Hakea ferruginea
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| Hakea ferruginea growing near the Stirling Range National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Hakea |
| Species: | H. ferruginea
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| Hakea ferruginea | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Hakea ferruginea, commonly known as rusty hakea,[2] is shrub in the family Proteaceae. It has flat leaves and white to cream-coloured flowers from late winter to mid-summer and is endemic to Western Australia.
Description
[edit]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 appear. These 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) wide. The black to brown seeds within have a narrowly ovate or elliptic shape with a wing down one edge.[4]
Taxonomy
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Hakea ferruginea is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hakea ferruginea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Rusty Hakea". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Hakea ferruginea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ a b c d "Hakea ferruginea". Fact Sheet. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Hakea ferruginea". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Flora Australasica". Internet Archive. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Hakea ferruginea Sweet". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ Sweet, Robert (1827–1828). Flora Australasica. Piccadilly: James Ridgway. p. 45. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 168.