Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hakea microcarpa

Flowering branches, some with 'nuts'. Photographer Don Wood, SE Forests National Park

Branches with open 'nuts'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Kosciuszko National Park

Line drawings. c. leaf variation; pollen presenter; 'nut'. GRM Dashorst, State Herbarium of South Australia, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Small-fruited hakea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, wet heath, grassy areas, stony slopes, along streams, moist sites, and swamps. Widespread. Rarely coastal.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves sharp pointed. New growth appressed hairy, becoming hairless by the time of flowering, darkening with age. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.9–14 cm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, cylindrical to more or less flat, veins obscure, with a mucro 1-3.5 mm long. Flowers white to cream, with 4 'petals' free from each other when the flowers are fully open, hairless. Gynoecium 6–10 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 6–40. Flowering: spring to summer. 'Nuts' slender, 11–27 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, smooth or wrinkled, more or less rounded at the top, with a small protuberance near top of each valve. 'Nuts' opening widely before the next flowering season. Seeds with one wing.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hakea~microcarpa   (accessed 8 April 2021)