Hakea florulenta

Hakea florulenta
	Hakea florulenta near Grafton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Hakea
Species:	H. florulenta
Binomial name
	Hakea florulenta; Meisn.
	Occurrence data from AVH

Hakea florulenta, commonly known as three-nerved willow hakea,^[2] is a woody shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

Description

Hakea florulenta is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in), sometimes has silky-hairy young shoot, and forms a lignotuber. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, 50–150 mm (2.0–5.9 in) long, and 10–35 mm (0.39–1.38 in) wide on a petiole 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. The flowers are arranged in umbels in up to four leaf axils per branch, each umbel with 14 to 20 flowers on peduncles 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 4.0–7.5 mm (0.16–0.30 in) long. The flowers are white, glabrous and 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, the pistil 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to December, and the fruit is obliquely elliptic 20–25 mm (0.79–0.98 in) long and 6–12 mm (0.24–0.47 in) wide, the surface with blackish blister-like protuberances.^[3]^[4]

Taxonomy

Hakea florulenta was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner from a specimen collected near Moreton Bay by Frederick Strange (1826 - 1854), who was killed by Aborigines whilst collecting near Mackay. The description was published in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany.^[5]^[6]^[7] The specific epithet (florulenta) is a Latin word meaning "abounding in flowers" or "flowering profusely".^[8]

Distribution and habitat

Hakea florulenta occurs in coastal areas of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales from Bundaberg south to Grafton. Found growing in open forest, often associated with Melaleuca on sand or sandstone sometimes in poorly drained areas.^[3]^[4]

References

^ "Hakea florulenta". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ "Hakea florulenta". WetlandInfo. Department of Environment & Science Queensland. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
^ ^a ^b Barker, Robyn M.; Harden, Gwen J.; Haegi, Laurie; Barker, William R. "Hakea florulenta". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Hakea florulenta". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
^ "Hakea florulenta". APNI. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ Meissner, Carl (1855). "New Australian Proteaceae". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 7: 116. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ "Strange, Frederick (1826 - 1854)". Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 338.