Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hakea pachyphylla

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

Stem with young 'nut'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

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

Tree. Photographer casliber, Blue Mountains

Common name

A hakea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Heath or mallee-heath, usually on exposed sites, sometimes in swampy areas or along creeks. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 2 m high. Leaves sharp pointed. Young growth sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded, 1–5 cm long, 1–1.8 mm in diameter, cylindrical, sometimes lower surface grooved, surfaces sparsely appressed-hairy, quickly becoming hairless; mucro about 0.5-1.5 mm long. Flowers yellow to cream, with 4 'petals' 1.5–2 mm long, free from each other when the flowers are fully open, more or less hairless. Gynoecium 3.5–4.5 mm long. Unit clusters of 1–7 flowers, often several clusters close together. Flowers spring. 'Nuts' round to oval, 29–35 mm long, 23–26 mm wide, coarsely warty; beak short and broad, smooth to sparsely warty,continuing down both sides of the 'nuts'; horns obscure or absent. Seeds with one wing. Seeds with one wing.

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