Hakea lasiocarpha
{{Short description|Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia}}
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|genus = Hakea
|species = lasiocarpha
|authority = R.Br.{{cite web |title=Hakea lasiocarpha |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/84938 |website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=29 December 2019}}
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Hakea lasiocarpha, commonly known as long styled hakea,{{cite book |last1=Holliday |first1=Ivan |title=Hakeas a Field an Garden Guide |date=2005 |publisher=Reed New Holland |isbn=1-877069-14-0}} is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It has about 30 whitish flowers in clusters in the upper leaf axils, rigid prickly leaves and a limited distribution.
Description
Hakea lasiocarpha is an upright spreading shrub typically growing to {{convert|3|to|6|m|ft|0}} high and forms a lignotuber. The branchlets are densely covered with long soft hairs. The evergreen rigid leaves are elliptic in cross-section and have a narrowly obovate shape with a length of {{convert|1.2|to|4|cm|in|2}} and a width of {{convert|1|to|2|mm|in|3}}. It blooms from May to July and produces white flowers. Each inflorescence is composed of about 30 flowers. The white perianth is about {{convert|8|mm|in|3}} in length. After flowering glabrous fruits form that are covered in small black rounded projections. The fruits have a length of {{convert|20|to|23|mm|in|2|abbr=on}} and about {{convert|10|mm|in|2|abbr=on}} wide with horns that are about {{convert|5|mm|in|3|abbr=on}} long. The seeds inside the fruit have a narrowly ovate or elliptic shape and are {{convert|10|to|11|mm|in|2|abbr=on}} in length with a narrow wing down one side.{{cite web|url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Hakea/key/Australian%20Hakea%20species/Media/Html/Hakea_lasiocarpha.htm|title=Hakea lasiocarpha|access-date=26 October 2018|work=Electronic Flora of South Australia|publisher=Government of South Australia}}
Taxonomy and naming
Hakea lasiocarpha was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown and the description was published in the Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.{{cite web |title=Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae |url=https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/10917/?offset=#page=27&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q= |website=Biodiversity Heritage Library |access-date=29 December 2019}}{{cite web |title=Hakea lasiocarpha |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/503412 |website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=29 December 2019}} The only known synonym is Hakea dolichostyla.{{cite web|url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2890320#names|title=Hakea lasiocarpha R.Br.|access-date=26 October 2018|work=Atlas of Living Australia|publisher=Global Biodiversity Information Facility}}
The specific epithet is said to be derived from the Greek words {{transl|grc|lasios}} ({{lang|grc|λάσιος}}) meaning woolly or hairy or shaggyLiddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. and {{transl|grc|carpha}} meaning small dry body referring to the involucral bracts of the plant.
Distribution
Long styled hakea is endemic to an area along the south coast in the Great Southern region of Western Australia between Albany, Jerramungup and Mount Barker where it is found on hilltops and in valleys growing in sandy-loamy, clay and gravelly soils.{{FloraBase|name=Hakea lasiocarpha|id=12229}}
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Category:Eudicots of Western Australia