Hakea lasiocarpha
Hakea lasiocarpha, commonly known as long styled hakea, 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 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 and a width of. It blooms from May to July and produces white flowers. Each inflorescence is composed of about 30 flowers. The white perianth is about in length. After flowering glabrous fruits form that are covered in small black rounded projections. The fruits have a length of and about wide with horns that are about long. The seeds inside the fruit have a narrowly ovate or elliptic shape and are in length with a narrow wing down one side.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. The only known synonym is Hakea dolichostyla.The specific epithet is said to be derived from the Greek words meaning woolly or hairy or shaggy and meaning small dry body referring to the involucral bracts of the plant.