Flora of Victoria

Shrubs or small trees, c. 0.3–4 m high, sometimes lignotuberous; young branchlets appressed-sericeous, usually glabrescent to ± persistently tomentose. Leaves terete, usually widely spreading, 1.5–8 cm long, 0.7–1.6 mm wide, grooved below, glabrous; apex straight. Inflorescence 3–6-flowered; rachis 0.7–2.8 mm long, densely tomentose; pedicel 1.2–4.8 mm long, sericeous to tomentose; perianth 4.2–7.2 mm long, white or pink, glabrous; pistil 9.0–12.2 mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc. Fruit obliquely to broadly ovoid, 1.8–3.5 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, finely or coarsely tuberculate; beak sparsely pustulate or smooth; horns 1–5 mm long, often eroded; seed not occupying whole valve face, 17–23 mm long, 6.5–10.5 mm wide; seed-body 6–10 mm long, rugose; wing down one side only, dark blackish-brown.

CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Gold, GGr, HNF, HSF, LoM, OtP, OtR, Strz, VVP, WPro, Wim.

3 subspecies, separated predominantly on fruit size and branchlet and pedicel indumentum; 2 in Victoria.

Source: Barker, R.M.; Barker, W.R.; Haegi, L. (1996). Hakea. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Key to the subspecies of Hakea decurrens

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Proteanae

order Proteales

family Proteaceae

genus Hakea

Higher taxa

species Hakea decurrens R.Br.

Subordinate taxa

subspecies Hakea decurrens subsp. physocarpa W.R.Barker

subspecies Hakea decurrens subsp. platytaenia W.R.Barker

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Hakea decurrens in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Hakea decurrens in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Lowan Mallee	present	native
Wimmera	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Wilsons Promontory	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Otway Ranges	present	native
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania

Hakea decurrens R.Br.

Bushy Needlewood

Victoria

State distribution