| Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Hakea |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | H. l. subsp. leucoptera |
| Trinomial name | |
| Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera, commonly known as silver needlewood, needlewood, needle bush, needle hakea [2] or kulua, [3] is a shrub or small tree with cylinder-shaped leaves and with flowers which have a covering of white, woolly hairs on the flower stalks. It is found in western New South Wales, north-western Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. It grows in grassland, shrubland and woodland. [2] [3]
Hakea leucoptera was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . [4] [5] In 1996 William Baker described two subspecies of H. leucoptera including this subspecies and subspecies sericipes. [6]