Jacksonia hakeoides
Jacksonia hakeoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is a low, densely-branched shrub with sharply-pointed end branches, the leaves reduced to scales, yellow-orange to orange flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy pods.
Description
Jacksonia hakeoides is a low, densely-branched, sturdy shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, its branches greyish green. Its end branches are sharply-pointed, long and about wide with spreading, white hairs. The leaves are reduced to reddish-brown, egg-shaped scales, long and wide. The flowers are scattered along the branches on a straight pedicel long. There are egg-shaped bracteoles with irregularly toothed edges, long and wide on the pedicels. The floral tube is long and the sepals are membranous, the lobes long, wide and fused at the base for. The standard petal is yellow-orange to orange with red markings, long and deep, the wings yellow-orange to orange with red markings, long, and the keel is red, long. The filaments of the stamens are red, long. Flowering occurs from May to December, and the fruit is a woody, densely hairy, broadly elliptic pod, long and wide.Taxonomy
Jacksonia hakeoides was first formally described in 1853 by Carl Meissner Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.The specific epithet means 'Hakea-like'.