''Hakea lasianthoides'' is a shrub or tree in the family ''

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'' and is endemic to Western Australia. It has creamy-white flowers, mostly linear leaves and flowers from September to November.

Description

''Hakea lasianthoides'' is an upright shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. The flat evergreen leaves have a linear to narrowly elliptic or obovate shape and are in length and wide. It blooms from September to November and produces white-cream flowers. Each inflorescence is composed of 2 to 8 flowers with cream coloured with hairs extending onto the perianth which is in length. After flowering smooth leaf-like fruit form with a transversely elliptic shape. Each fruit is in length and wide. The seeds within have an obliquely narrowly elliptic or obovate shape with a wing down one side

Taxonomy and naming

The species was first formally described by the botanist Barbara Rye in 1984 as part of the work ''A new species and a new combination among the Proteaceae represented in the Perth Region'' as published in the journal '' Nuytsia''. The only known synonym is ''Hakea lasiantha'' var. ''angustifolia''. The

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is taken from the Greek words ''lasios'' meaning ''hairy or woolly'' and ''anthos'' meaning ''flower'' and ''-oides'' meaning ''resembling'', referring to the similar appearance of the flowers to ''

Hakea lasiantha ''Hakea lasiantha'', commonly known as the woolly-flowered hakea, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to an area along the south coast in the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia. Description The erect non-lignotu ...

''.

Distribution

It is endemic to an area in the

South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...

and Great Peel regions of Western Australia from Armadale in the north to Denmark in the south where it is found in damp areas and ridge tops growing in sandy-loam and gravelly soils. It is often found as part of the understorey in

jarrah ''Eucalyptus marginata'', commonly known as jarrah, djarraly in Noongar language and historically as Swan River mahogany, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tree with roug ...

forest communities.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18082461 lasianthoides Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1984 Taxa named by Barbara Lynette Rye