Hakea ulicina
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| Furze hakea | |
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| Hakea ulicina in Bunyip State Park, Victoria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Hakea |
| Species: | H. ulicina |
| Binomial name | |
| Hakea ulicina | |
Hakea ulicina, commonly known as furze hakea,[3] is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and endemic to Victoria, Australia. It has stiff, long, narrow leaves and creamy-white flowers.
Hakea ulicina is an erect shrub or small tree growing between 2–5 m (7–20 ft) tall, resprouting from a lignotuber. The leaves are mostly linear, curving, rigid, 3–18 cm (1–7 in) long and 1–4 mm (0.04–0.2 in) wide with 1-3 prominent longitudinal veins on the upper and lower surface. The white flowers are borne in clusters of 6-18 in leaf axils, and the pistil 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long. Flowering occurs from late winter to spring and the fruit are ovate or obliquely ovate 1.6–2.5 cm (0.6–1 in) long by 8–11 cm (3–4 in) wide with a short, straight, pointed beak.[4][5]
Taxonomy and naming
Hakea ulicina was first formally described by Robert Brown in Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae in 1830, based on plant material collected by William Baxter in Wilsons Promontory.[6][7] The specific epithet (ulicina) means Ulex-like.[8]