Hakea nodosa
R.Br. Yellow HakeaSlender to rounded shrub, to 2(–4) m high; branchlets ribbed, soon glabrescent. Leaves flexible, not widely spreading, terete to flattened, 0.8–5 cm long, 0.7–2.5 mm wide, glabrous, sometimes grooved below; apex straight. Inflorescence 2–11-flowered; rachis 0.5–1.0 mm long, densely pubescent; pedicels 1.5–3.3 mm long, pubescent; perianth 1.3–2.2 mm long, cream to deep yellow, glabrous; pistil 3–4.5 mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc. Fruit broad-ovoid to globular, densely warted or almost smooth with age, 1.3–3.5 cm long, 0.9–3 cm wide; hardly beaked; horns absent; seed not occupying whole valve face, obliquely elliptic, 12–23 mm long, 5.5–11 mm wide; wing broadly decurrent down three-quarters or all of one side, rarely narrowly down the other, dark grey to grey-yellow. Flowers May–Aug.
LoM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, GipP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, VAlp. Also SA, Tas. Occurs mainly in poorly drained heathland, heathy woodland, and scrubs fringing swamps.
Remarkable for producing 2 fruit types, one with a smooth surface, not developing any marked woodiness and opening while still attached to the bush, the other woody and usually with a rough tuberculate surface, which remains closed while attached to the bush. Woody fruits in Victoria are usually less than 2.5 cm long and 1–1.5 cm wide. The smooth-surfaced fruit was the basis for Hakea flexilis, described at the same time as H. nodosa.
Barker, R.M.; Barker, W.R.; Haegi, L. (1996). Hakea. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 870–882. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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