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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Proteaceae
Hakea sericea

Citation: Schrader, in Schrader & Wendl., Sert. Hannov. 27 (1797).

Synonymy: Hakea vittata R. Br. var. glabriflora J. Black ex J.H. Willis, Victorian Nat. 73:150 (1957); Hakea vittata R. Br. var. glabriflora J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 265 (1948), nom. invalid.

Common name: Silky hakea, bushy needlewood, needle bush,

Description:
Divaricate shrub to 4 m high; branchlets white-pubescent, glabrescent; leaves spreading, 1.5-8 cm x 0.6-1.5 mm, grooved below at the base, apex straight, mucro 1-3.2 mm long.

Inflorescence an umbel of 1-7 flowers, pinkish in bud, white when mature; rhachis simple or obscurely compound, 0.3-0.8 rarely to 2.5 mm long, with white raised pubescence; pedicel 2-4 mm long, with sparse white more or less appressed hairs; torus horizontal to slightly oblique; perianth 4-5.5 mm long, glabrous, limb 1-1.2 mm long; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long; gland semi-annular, c. 0.35-0.4 mm long laterally, entire or undulate; pistil 8.5-10.5 mm long, vertically inserted; pollen-presenter an undulate disc 0.55-0.75 mm long, central cone 0.2-0.4 mm long.

Flowers: July-Nov.

image of FSA1_Hakea_ser.jpg twig, inflorescence, flower, pistil and internal face and external median veiw
Image source: fig. 76c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Rotherham et al. (1975) Flowers and plants of New South Wales and southern Queensland, fig. 51.

Distribution:  Roadsides, sclerophyll forest and shrubberies.

S.Aust.: SL, SE.   Native to N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. (Bass Strait);.   Also naturalised in New Zealand, South Africa (declared noxious) and southern Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Once used for sweeping chimneys.

Author: Not yet available


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