Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hakea tephrosperma
Common name
Hooked Needlewood
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Woodland and shrubland. Occurs as individual trees or in dense thickets of shrubby plants. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 8 m tall. Leaf tips with a sharp curved point. Branchlets rusty hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-9 cm long, 1-1.8 mm in diameter, narrow cylindrical, rigid, hairy becoming hairless, tips hooked, with a mucro 0.8-2 mm long. Flowers white or cream to whitish green with appressed white and rusty hairs, with 4 'petals' 5–6 mm long, free from each other when the flowers are fully open. Gynoecium 7–10 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 6-22 flowers, often several clusters close together. Flowering: spring. 'Nut' oval, 20-30 mm long, 15-20 mm wide, more or less smooth, sometimes warty, horns blunt, to 2 mm long. Seeds with one wing.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hakea~tephrosperma (accessed 8 April 2021)
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