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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.

image of FSA1_Hakea_min.jpg twig with flowers, flower, pistil, internal and external veiw of fruit
Image source: fig. 73c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  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.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — early Nov.


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