Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hakea dohertyi

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

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

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Kowmung hakea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest. Kanangra Boyd National Park and east to Lake Burragorang.

Notes

Shrub to 6 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Leaves alternating up the stems, 20–40 cm long, 1.8–2.2 mm wide, threadlike, flexible, triangular in cross section, becoming hairless (but with minute protruberances). Flowers cream to white, with 4 'petals' about 4 mm long, free from each other when the flowers are fully open, hairless. Gynoecium 3.8–4 mm long. Unit clusters of 4–6 flowers, often several clusters close together. Flowers spring. 'Nuts' approximately oval, 23–28 mm long, 12–20 mm wide, finely warty; beak short, straight; horns absent. Seeds with one wing.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10388  (accessed 6 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hakea~dohertyi   (accessed 6 January, 2021)