Hakea stenophylla
Hakea stenophylla is a shrub or tree in the family Proteaceae, with sweetly scented creamy-white flowers. It is endemic to Western Australia.
Description
Hakea stenophylla is a spreading shrub or tree typically growing to high with more or less smooth, dark bark. The branchlets are thickly covered with flattened, soft white hairs, occasionally rusty coloured. The surface quickly becoming smooth. The grey-green leaves are linear to narrowly egg-shaped long and wide. The leaves are initially thickly covered with flattened, rusty coloured, smooth soft hairs quickly becoming smooth. The leaves taper abruptly to a short pointed hook at the apex. The inflorescence consists of 10 to 16 cream-white, sweetly scented flowers on a peduncle long that is densely covered with white, soft hairs. The individual flowers are on a stem long. The perianth long that is recurved to a claw. The pistil is long with a recurved style and an oblique pollen presenter. The woody fruit are elliptic or obliquely egg-shaped, long and wide, abruptly narrowing with an upright or recurved black beak. The seeds within are long and wide with a wing down one side of seed body.Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1830 from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham and Brown's description was published in Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae. The specific epithet is derived from the Greek stenos meaning "narrow" and phyllon meaning "leaf" referring to the shape of the leaves.There are two recognized subspecies:
- Hakea stenophylla subsp. notialis R.M.Barker A spreading shrub up to high.
- Hakea stenophylla R.Br. subsp. stenophylla An erect small tree or shrub to high.