''Hakea fraseri'', is a species of shrub or small tree commonly known as the corkwood oak, is a shrub in the family ''

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to northern New South Wales. It has furrowed bark, pendulous foliage and creamy-white flowers in spring.

Description

''Hakea fraseri'' is a shrub or small tree growing to high with multiple stems, dark grey rough bark and does not form a

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. The branchlets are a whitish colour, covered with flattened, soft hairs, new shoots glossy rusty coloured hairs over glossy white hairs. The leaves are simple, varying length with a weeping habit, long wide, more or less smooth and ending with hook. 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 ...

consists of 25-50 cream-white flowers borne in leaf axils on a stalk long that is covered with reddish-brown, short, matted hairs over whitish flattened hairs. The

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long, thickly covered with flattened hairs that extend onto the cream-white

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when in bud, the

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long. The fruit is narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide and a long obscure beak. Flowering occurs in spring.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1830 Robert Brown and the description was published in ''

Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae ''Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae'' ("First supplement to the Prodromus of the flora of New Holland") is an 1830 supplement to Robert Brown's ''Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. It may be referred to ...

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''(fraseri)'' honours Charles Fraser the first colonial botanist and Superintendent of the New South Wales botanic gardens.

Distribution and habitat

Corkwood oak is a rare species in

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confined to the New England Tablelands below

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, Dangar,

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and Apsley Falls on steep slopes and vertical rock situations in gorges.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18082590 fraseri Flora of New South Wales