''Hakea archaeoides'' is a large shrub or small tree commonly known as Big Nellie hakea and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

to forest areas on the north coast of

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, Australia. It has clusters of red and greenish yellow flowers in the flowering season.

Description

''Hakea archaeoides'' is a

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 ...

multi-stemmed shrub growing up to in height and in width at maturity. Small branches and young leaves are densely covered in short red-brown silky hairs. The leaf stalk is long supporting a narrow oval shaped leaf long and wide gradually narrowing to a point long. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

has 70-110 or more flowers held on a stalk long generally with densely matted silky hairs. The individual flower stalks are long, hairless, reddening with age. The

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coine ...

s and petals are green and smooth green glabrous or with scattered hairs in bud. The

style Style is a manner of doing or presenting things and may refer to: * Architectural style, the features that make a building or structure historically identifiable * Design, the process of creating something * Fashion, a prevailing mode of clothing ...

s are red and long. Flowers are a red and greenish-yellow and appear in pendant axillary clusters in leaf axils from spring to early summer. The woody fruit are egg-shaped long and wide.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea archaeoides'' was first formally described in 1999 by

William Barker William Barker may refer to: Politicians *William Barker (translator) ( 1570), English translator and MP for Great Yarmouth and Bramber * William Barker (MP for Berkshire) (died 1685), English Member of Parliament for Berkshire * Sir William Bark ...

and published in "Flora of Australia" from a specimen collected near

Coopernook Coopernook is a small town in mid-north New South Wales, Australia (post code 2426). It is located 24 kilometres north of Taree and 11 kilometres west of Harrington and is administered by Mid-Coast Council. At the 2016 census, Coopernook and the ...

. The specific epithet (''archaeoides'') refers to this species' similarity to primitive hakeas as revealed in

cladogram A cladogram (from Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to ...

Distribution and habitat

''Hakea archaeoides'' is restricted to

Taree Taree is a town on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia. Taree and nearby Cundletown were settled in 1831 by William Wynter. Since then Taree has grown to a population of 26,381, and is the centre of a significant agricultural distr ...

and Wauchope areas in north-eastern New South Wales growing in wet

sclerophyll Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat. The plants feature hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation which is parallel or oblique to direct ...

forest and rainforest on hill slopes.

Conservation

This hakea is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government ''

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 The ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and cult ...

'' and the New South Wales '' Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3012740 archaeoides Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 1999 Taxa named by William Robert Barker