Hakea verrucosa

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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

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Plant  information

Common name:                . . .

Conservation status:  Not threatened

• Is classified as "not threatened" by the WA Government, Department of Parks and Wildlife

Etymology:   

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

• Named from the Latin verrucosus - warty, referring to the seed surface

Flowers:                  

• It has large white, deep pink or red pendulous flowers

• The pendant inflorescence consists of 7-14 white, pink to red flowers in a showy profusion in axillary clusters, or on old wood

• Each inflorescence is held on a stalk about 3–16 mm long

• The pedicel 2–5.4 mm long, the perianth 6–9 mm long, initially a cream-white and aging to pink and the pistil 21–25 mm long 

• Flowering occurs between May and August and the fruit are obliquely egg-shaped 2.2–3.1 cm long and 1.2–1.4 cm wide with blister-like protuberances, tapering to two horns 2.5–5 mm long

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• Stiff needle-shaped leaves

• The green terete leaves are about 2–6.3 cm long and 1–1.5 mm wide, ending in a sharp point 1–2 mm long

• The leaves are smooth and have a tendency to point in one direction from the branchlet

Stem & branches: 

• The branchlets are covered mostly in densely matted, short, rusty hairs

Roots:         

Habit:        

• It is a spreading prickly shrub growing to 0.8–2.6 m high and does not form a lignotuber 

• Dense prickly growth habit

Habitat:   

• Hakea verrucosa grows in heath and low woodland on sandy-loam, near creeks, clay and gravel 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to south-west WA

• Ranging from Jerramungup along the coast to Esperance

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy and naming

  • The species was first formally described in 1865 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller 

  • Published in the fifth volume of his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae

Sources of information:

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