Hakea pendens
Hakea pendens is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and endemic to a small area in the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with needle-like leaves and pendulous pink flowers.
Description
Hakea pendens typically grows to high and wide. The branchlets are densely covered in silky, flattened hairs until flowering and then the surface becoming whitish and waxy. The terete, dark green leaves are long and about wide, crowded, stiff, and densely covered with silky, rusty coloured, flattened hairs, ending with a sharp point long. The inflorescence is a cluster of 6-8 pale pink pendulous flowers borne in leaf axils. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is obovate, smooth, grey, sometimes with darker grey speckling and about long and wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Hakea pendens was first formally described in 1990 by Robyn Mary Barker and the description was published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden from a specimen collected near Marvel Loch. The specific epithet means "hanging down", referring to the flower.
Conservation status
Hakea pendens is classified as "Declared Rare and [Priority Flora List|Priority Three]" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.