Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hakea dactyloides
Common name
Finger Hakea, Broad-leaved Hakea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and rocky sites. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 4.5 m high. Young stems silky to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–15 cm long, 5–40 mm wide, flat, usually rigid, longitudinal veins usually 3–5, tips gradually tapering to a point. Flowers white to cream, sometimes with pink bases, with 4 'petals' about 4 mm long, free from each other when the flowers are fully open, hairless. Gynoecium 4.0–4.5 mm long. Flowers in dense clusters of about 20–30 flowers, often several clusters close together. Flowering: spring to summer. 'Nuts' approximately oval, 20–35 mm long, 15–23 mm wide, prominently warty, with a short beak or no beak. Seeds with one wing.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hakea~dactyloides (accessed 8 April 2021)
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