''Hakea collina'' is a shrub in the

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 eastern Australia. A small many branched shrub with gnarled branches with attractive cream-yellowish flowers.

Description

''Hakea collina'' is an intricately branched often gnarled shrub growing to high. Smaller branches and leaves have fine flattened silky hairs that remain until flowering. Straight needle-like leaves are crowded at the branch ends long and wide, sometimes grooved on the lower side. The

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 ...

has two to twelve flowers with a white

perianth The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepals when ...

long and the

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is about long. The

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is long and covered with soft white hairs extending onto the lower part of the flower. The egg-shaped fruit are finely wrinkled, narrower at the stem long and wide. Fruit taper to a short pointed tip long with no beak. The seeds are long with a wing that is on one side. Flowers in the colder months from May to July.

Taxonomy

''Hakea collina'' was first formally described by the botanist

Cyril Tenison White Cyril Tenison ("C.T.") White (17 August 1890 – 15 August 1950) was an Australian botanist. Early life White was born in Brisbane to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa ''nee'' Bailey. He attended school at South Brisbane State School, an ...

in 1944 as part of the work ''Contributions to the Queensland Flora'' as published in the ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''collina'') is derived from the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

word ''collinus'' meaning "of a hill" or "hilly", referring to the habitat where the shrub occurs.

Distribution

It is

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to an area in the

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Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

lateritic 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 ...

tableland on hills and plains as a part of open ''

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

'' woodland and shrubland communities.

Conservation status

''Hakea collina'' was classified as 'Poorly Known' in J.D.Briggs & J.H.Leigh, "Rare or Threatened Australian Plants" (1995).

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18083382 collina Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1944