Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Hakea teretifolia

Common name

Needlebush, Dagger Hakea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest, woodlandshrubland, and heath, usually in moist places and swampy sites. Coast, ranges, and the eastern tablelands.

subsp. hirsuta:  Coast, ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands.

subsp. teretifolia:  Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. North of west of Araluen.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Leaf tips sharp. New growth whitish hairy, almost hairless at flowering. Leaves alternating up the stems, often crowded, 0.5–7.7 cm long, 0.8– about 2 mm in diameter, rigid, cylindrical, sometimes flattened when young, surfaces hairless. Flowers with 4 white to yellowish 'petals' 3.7–6 mm long, covered with white hairs, free from each other when the flowers are fully open. Gynoecium 5–17 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 4-8 flowers, often several clusters close together. 'Nut' 16–30 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, finely black-warty or smooth, dark brown-streaked, tapering into a long beak, lacking horns at the tips. Flowers September–February. Seeds with one wing.

subsp. hirsuta:  Individual flower stalks and 'petals' densely hairy with raised hairs, some appressed.

subsp. teretifolia:  Individual flower stalks and 'petals' densely hairy with appressed shiny hairs, some almost erect.

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