Hakea archaeoides

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

Wikipedia links:       ngiosperms > Eudicots >  Proteales > Proteaceae  > Hakea  archaeoides

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Plant  information

Common name:                Big Nellie Hakea  

Conservation status:  Vulnerable

It is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

Etymology:   

• The genus is named after Baron Christian Ludwig von Hake, an 18th-century German patron of botany

• The specific epithet (archaeoides) refers to this species' similarity to primitive hakeas as revealed in cladograms

Flowers:                  

• The inflorescence has 70-110 or more flowers held on a stalk 40–7 mm long generally with densely matted silky hairs

• The individual flower stalks are 1.2–2 mm long, hairless, reddening with age

• The sepals and petals are green and smooth green glabrous or with scattered hairs in bud

• The styles are red and 23–27 mm long

• Flowers are a red and greenish-yellow and appear in pendant axillary clusters in leaf axils from spring to early summer

Fruit:                         

• The woody fruit are egg-shaped 1.5–2.2 cm long and 1.2–1.4 cm wide

Leaves:         

• The leaf stalk is 0.6–1.5 cm long supporting a narrow oval shaped leaf 7.5–28.5 cm long and 0.6–3 cm wide gradually narrowing to a point 1–3 mm long

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A large shrub or small tree

• Hakea archaeoides is a lignotuberous multi-stemmed shrub growing up to 7 m in height and 4 m in width at maturity

• Small branches and young leaves are densely covered in short red-brown silky hairs

Habitat:   

•  Growing in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest on hill slopes

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to forest areas on the north coast of NSW

• It is restricted to Taree and Wauchope areas in north-eastern NSW

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy 

  • Hakea archaeoides was first formally described in 1999 by William Barker and published in "Flora of Australia" from a specimen collected near Coopernook

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakea_archaeoides (2023)