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Family: Proteaceae
Hakea carinata

Citation: F. Muell. ex Meissner, Linnaea 26:360 (1854).

Synonymy: Hakea carinata F. Muell. ex Meissner forma planifolia Meissner and forma trigonophylla Meissner, Linnaea 26:361 (1854); Hakea ulicina R. Br. var. carinata (F. Muell. ex Meissner)Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:524 (1870), partly; Hakea ulicina R. Br. var. latifolia J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 266 (1948), partly; Hakea ulicina sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 266 (1948), partly, auct. non R. Br.

Common name: None

Description:
Erect often untidy shrub 1.5-3 m high, not suckering; branchlets with appressed pubescence persistent until flowering, sometimes patchily glabrescent; leaves narrow-linear to narrow-trigonous, rarely broad-linear, 5-24 cm X 1-12 mm, base not twisted, marginal veins conspicuous, mid-vein prominent below, rarely with 3 longitudinal veins prominent below and faintly conspicuous in dried material above, mucro 0.5-2.5 mm long; involucral cone 3.5-5 mm long, with the apex of the bracts appressed-white-pubescent, densely ciliate.

Racemes with 8-24 flowers; rhachis 1-2 mm long, white-hirsute; pedicel 1.5-3.5 mm long, rarely sparsely pubescent, pinkish; perianth 1.9-2.8 mm long, cream-white, limb 0.9-1.4 mm diam.; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long; gland 0.2-0.3 mm long laterally; pistil 3-6 mm long, cream-white; pollen-presenter a cone 0.5-0.8 mm long, with a basal flange 0.5-0.8 mm diam.

Fruit ellipsoid to narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.3-2.6 ( 0.6-1.1 cm, smooth or minutely verrucose, without a defined broad beak, narrowed into a fragile narrow beak 4-6.5 rarely 3 mm long; seed obliquely ovate to elliptic-ovate, 10-18 ( 4-6.5 mm, body almost globular, c. 2.4 mm thick, ridge at base a third of the thickness of the body, extended halfway to the wing apex, wing decurrent more broadly and further down one side of the body than the other, evenly dark-brown, rarely unevenly pigmented.

image of FSA1_Hakea_car.jpg twig, upper and lower surface and section of broad and narrow leaves and internal face and external median veiw of fruits
Image source: fig. 74b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In sands and loams in sclerophyll forest and open scrub.

S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Leaves vary in breadth on individual plants throughout the range of the species; in the SE region they are usually very broad with several veins below.

Author: Not yet available


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