''Hakea lasiocarpha'', commonly known as long styled hakea, is a shrub in the family '' Proteacea'' 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 elsew ...

to Western Australia. It has about 30 whitish flowers in clusters in the upper leaf axils, rigid prickly leaves and a limited distribution.

Description

''Hakea lasiocarpha'' is an upright spreading shrub typically growing to high and forms a

lignotuber 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 ...

. The branchlets are densely covered with long soft hairs. The evergreen rigid leaves are elliptic in cross-section and have a narrowly obovate shape with a length of and a width of . It blooms from May to July and produces white flowers. Each

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 ...

is composed of about 30 flowers. The 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 ...

is about in length. After flowering

glabrous Glabrousness (from the Latin ''glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...

fruits form that are covered in small black rounded projections. The fruits have a length of and about wide with horns that are about long. The seeds inside the fruit have a narrowly ovate or elliptic shape and are in length with a narrow wing down one side.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea lasiocarpha'' was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown and the description was published in the ''Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae''. The only known synonym is ''Hakea dolichostyla''. 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 ...

is said to be derived from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

words () meaning ''woolly or hairy or shaggy''Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). ''A Greek-English Lexicon revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. and meaning ''small dry body'' referring to the involucral bracts of the plant.

Distribution

Long styled hakea is endemic to an area along the south coast in the Great Southern region of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

between Albany, Jerramungup and Mount Barker where it is found on hilltops and in valleys growing in sandy-loamy, clay and gravelly soils.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18082699 lasiocarpha Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1830 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)