Hakea hastata
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| Hakea hastata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Hakea |
| Species: | H. hastata |
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| Hakea hastata | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Hakea hastata is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southern Western Australia. It is an open, upright shrub with light green leaves, branches covered in dense hairs and white flowers in spring.
Hakea hastata is an erect open shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 3 metres (4.9 to 9.8 ft).[2] It is sparingly branched with branchlets that are densely covered in pale brown hairs. The pale green leaves have a narrowly to broadly ovate shape and a length of 2 to 4.7 centimetres (0.8 to 1.9 in) and a width of 9 to 24 millimetres (0.354 to 0.945 in) with one to three longitudinal nerves.[3] It blooms from September to October and produces white flowers.[2] The solitary inflorescences contain 18 to 22 flowers with a cream-white coloured perianth. After flowering, woody fruits form that have an obliquely ovate to broadly ovate shape and are 1.6 to 2.0 cm (0.63 to 0.79 in) in length and 0.9 to 1.2 cm (0.35 to 0.47 in) wide with an obscure beak. The blackish brown seeds have an obliquely ovate or elliptic shape with a wing down one side.[3]