''Hakea anadenia'' is a shrub in the family
Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...
, native to near the west coast of
Western Australia. The fragrant creamy-white flowers appear in profusion from late winter to spring, but do not produce nectar.
Description
''Hakea anadenia'' is an upright
lignotuberous
A lignotuber is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire. Other woody plants may develop basal burls as a similar survival strategy, often as a response t ...
bushy shrub high and wide.
Smaller branches are smooth with grey bark and have flattened soft colourless hairs at flowering. Leaves are narrowly oval to egg-shaped and shallowly concave with one to three prominent longitudinal veins. Leaves are long and wide, narrower at the base and sometimes wavy. Leaves are toothed with a sharp point. There are one or two
inflorescence per axil with 14 to 20 flowers on each
raceme
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
. Flowers are devoid of a nectar-producing gland. The
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
s are smooth. The
perianth are white or pink and the
style long. Dense clusters of cream-white to pink fragrantly scented flowers appear from July to October. The woody fruit are at an erect angle on the stalk, narrowly egg-shaped long and wide usually with a beak. The black egg-shaped seed are long with wings down both sides.
Taxonomy and naming
''Hakea anadenia'' was first formally described by Robyn Barker, L.Haegi, W.Barker and A.Wilson in 1999 and published in Flora of Australia.
Distribution and habitat
''Hakea anadenia'' has a scattered distribution and is endemic to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia from around Dandaragan
Dandaragan is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The name of Dandaragan was first recorded in 1850 as the name of a nearby gulley and spring or watering hole known as Dandaraga spring. The word is Indigenous Australian i ...
in the north to Williams in the south. Grows in sandy or gravelly soils over or around laterite
Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...
usually in scrub-heath communities, also in mallee or low woodland areas.
Uses in horticulture
A showy small shrub both drought and frost tolerant. Grows well in an open and sunny situation in well-drained soil. Although it doesn't produce nectar as a food source for wildlife it does provide good protection due to its prickly growth habit.
Conservation status
''Hakea anadenia'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife
The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and e ...
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References
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anadenia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1999