Hakea fraseri

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Hakea
Species:
H. fraseri
Binomial name
Hakea fraseri

Hakea fraseri, is a species of shrub or small tree commonly known as the corkwood oak, [2] is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It has furrowed bark, pendulous foliage and creamy-white flowers in spring.

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Description

Hakea fraseri is a shrub or small tree growing to 1–6 m (3 ft 3 in – 19 ft 8 in) high with multiple stems, dark grey rough bark and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are a whitish colour, covered with flattened, soft hairs, new shoots glossy rusty coloured hairs over glossy white hairs. The leaves are simple, varying length with a weeping habit, 11–30 cm (4.3–11.8 in) long 0.9–1.4 mm (0.035–0.055 in) wide, more or less smooth and ending with hook. The inflorescence consists of 25-50 cream-white flowers borne in leaf axils on a stalk 9–25 mm (0.35–0.98 in) long that is covered with reddish-brown, short, matted hairs over whitish flattened hairs. The pedicel 3.5–8 mm (0.14–0.31 in) long, thickly covered with flattened hairs that extend onto the cream-white perianth when in bud, the pistil 17–26 mm (0.67–1.02 in) long. The fruit is narrowly egg-shaped, 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) long, 11–17 mm (0.43–0.67 in) wide and a long obscure beak. Flowering occurs in spring. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1830 Robert Brown and the description was published in Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae . [4] [5] The specific epithet (fraseri) honours Charles Fraser the first colonial botanist and Superintendent of the New South Wales botanic gardens. [6]

Distribution and habitat

Corkwood oak is a rare species in New South Wales confined to the New England Tablelands below Wollomombi, Dangar, Tia and Apsley Falls on steep slopes and vertical rock situations in gorges. [3]

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References

  1. "Hakea fraseri". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Hakea fraseri". PlantNET-Flora of NSW Online. Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. 1 2 Wilson, Annette; Barker, Robyn M.; Haegi, Laurence A.; Barker, William R., eds. (1999). "Flora of Australia". Canberra/Melbourne: ABRS-Department of Environment & Heritage. ISBN   0-643-06454-0.
  4. "Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  5. "Hakea fraseri". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  6. "Hakea fraseri". Fact Sheet-Flora of South Australia. South Australian Government. Retrieved 21 April 2020.