Family: Proteaceae
Hakea minyma
Citation:
Maconochie, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 97:130 (1973).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Bushy shrub or tree, 1-6 m high, of similar diameter, branches ascending; branchlets and leaves white-sericeous, soon glabrescent; leaves ascending, narrow-linear, 4-16 cm X 3.5-8 mm, with 10-21 longitudinal veins, with a fragile acuminate apex 0.7-4 mm long; involucral cone ovoid, c. 0.25 cm long.
Inflorescence a raceme of c. 50-110 cream flowers; rhachis 2-6 cm long, glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent; pedicel 0.5-1.3 mm long; perianth 2-2.7 mm long, limb 1-1.5 mm long; anthers elliptic, 0.6-0.9 mm long; gland entire, 0.2-0.45 mm long laterally; pistil 4.6-8 mm long; pollen-presenter a cone 0.4-1 mm long with a broad-elliptic undulate basal disc 0.5-0.7 mm long.
Fruit ovoid-acuminate, 1.7-3 X 0.9-1.8 cm, smooth, with a broad beak narrowing gradually into a fragile narrow beak c. 4-12 mm long, with a broad area of white wood beside the lower half of the seed cavity; seed rhomboid-obovate, 12-21 X 6-9 mm, body 6.5-9 mm long, wing erose, rarely entire, decurrent fully down one side of the body, terminal on other, brown-black.
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Image source: fig. 73c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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In stands on sand dunes or plains in mallee woodland with spinifex or tussock grasses, or in mulga woodland; once recorded on rocky hill.
S.Aust.: NW. N.T. (Petermann Range); W.Aust.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug. — early Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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