''Hakea carinata'' is a shrub in the family

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native to an area in

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. A frost hardy small to medium species adaptable to a range of free draining situations. Its prickly habit creates a good wildlife habitat.

Description

''Hakea carinata'' is an erect shrub typically growing to a height of . The flexible leaves are smooth, flat and linear, concave or triangular in cross-section long and wide with prominent marginal veins. Smaller branches are covered with flattened fine hairs at flowering, sometimes smooth. The single

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

consists of 8-24 cream-white flowers and appear in the leaf axils. The pink

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s are smooth, sometimes with thinly sparsed silky hairs. The

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is cream-white and the

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long. The fruit have a short stem, narrowly oblong to egg-shaped long and wide with a long narrow straight or slightly curved beak toward the apex. The blackish-brown seeds are narrowly oblong to egg-shaped long and wide with a wing on each side. Flowers from in spring from September to October.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea carinata'' was first formally described in 1854 by the botanist

Carl Meissner Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner (1 November 1800 – 2 May 1874) was a Swiss botanist. Biography Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 ...

who published the description in the journal ''

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''. The

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(''carinata'') is a

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word meaning "keeled", possibly referring to the leaves of this species, being triangular or boat-shaped in cross-section.

Distribution and habitat

This hakea has a scattered distribution in southern parts of the Flinders Range and the

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. A couple of isolated populations are also found in the southeast of the state around Padthaway. The species is often part of the understorey of dry sclerophyll forest and is also found among scrub-heath communities growing in sandy to loamy soils.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18081160 carinata Flora of South Australia Taxa named by Carl Meissner Plants described in 1854 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller