Common name: Willow-leaved Hakea
Hakea salicifolia (Vent.) B.L.Burtt APNI*
Description: Tall shrub or small tree, young shoots sparsely silky or glabrous.
Leaves mostly narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 5–11 cm long, mostly 5–20 mm wide, apex acute, glabrous, pale green and sometimes glaucous, lateral veins at acute angles, obscure.
Conflorescences axillary, clusters 16–28-flowered; rachis 1–1.5 mm long; pedicels 4.5–7 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 3.5–4.5 mm long, white, glabrous. Gynoecium 6–6.5 mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc.
Follicle ± globose, 20–23 mm long, 13–30 mm wide, covered with hemispherical blunt-topped warts 1–2.5 mm high; beak slightly upturned; horns present.
Flowering: Flowers spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in wet sclerophyll forest, often near rainforest; widespread on the coast and ranges, chiefly from Kempsey to the Shoalhaven R., widespread in the Blue Mtns, also in the Dorrigo and Whian Whian districts.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, NT, CT
Text by R.M. Barker, G.J. Harden, L. Haegi & W.R. Barker
| ||Key to the subspecies|| |
|1||Leaves >7 mm wide||subsp. salicifolia|
|Leaves 4–7 mm wide||subsp. angustifolia|
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