Hakea pritzelii
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| Hakea pritzelii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Hakea |
| Species: | H. pritzelii |
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| Hakea pritzelii | |
Hakea pritzelii is a flowering shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a few small areas in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It has rigid, pale green leaves and scented red-purple flowers.
Hakea pritzelli is an erect, dense, spreading shrub typically growing to a height of 1 to 2.5 metres (3.3 to 8.2 ft). It blooms from July to August and produces sweetly scented red-purple flowers with a light green style in clusters in leaf axils or along stems on old wood. The leaves are obovate, thick, rigid and stem clasping with a prominent sharp point. The pale green leaves vary from being entire to shallowly divided having 3, 5 or 9 small very sharp, prickly teeth. The fruit are 20 mm (0.8 in) long and 9–10 mm (0.4–0.4 in) wide with corky spines on the external surface.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Hakea pritzelii was first formally described in 1904 by Ludwig Diels and the description was published in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.[4][5] The species was named after the German botanist Ernst Georg Pritzel who travelled with Ludwig Diels collecting specimens of Western Australia flora.[3]