Hakea tephrosperma
R.Br. Hooked NeedlewoodShrub or small tree; branchlets minutely pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves rigid, terete, 3–8 cm long, 1–1.5(–1.8) mm wide, not grooved, glabrescent; apex abruptly curved. Inflorescence 6–22-flowered; rachis 1–3 mm long, densely appressed brown-pubescent; pedicel and perianth appressed white and brown-pubescent; pedicel 3.5–7 mm long; perianth 5–6 mm long, white or cream; pistil 7–10 mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc. Fruit broadly ovoid, 2–3 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, smooth, sometimes warted, beaked for c. one-third the length, horns blunt, to 2 mm long; seed not occupying whole valve face; wing decurrent down one side only, grey-yellow to blackish. Flowers mainly Sep.–Oct.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, Gold, CVU, NIS, HSF, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, Qld. Scattered in the north and north-west of the State, on sandy and heavier, fertile loam soils, and like Hakea leucoptera, now much reduced by agriculture.
In addition to the characters given in the key, H. tephrosperma differs from H. leucoptera in having predominantly horned fruits and generally darker seed wings.
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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