''Hakea maconochieana'' is a shrub in the family '' Proteacea'' and is

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Australia. It is a rare species with red flowers, needle-like leaves and an upright or spreading shrub.

Description

''Hakea maconochieana'' is an upright or spreading shrub typically growing to a height of and does not form 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 leaves are flat, thick, long, wide, patchily covered with flattened soft hairs, prominent veins, finely ribbed and ending with a more or less blunt tip. The branchlets at flowering are sparsely covered with flattened silky hairs. 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 about 100 red flowers on a stem long with rough, coarse longish hairs. The

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has few or moderately covered with soft hairs. The red

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 ...

has occasional flattened, silky hairs and the

pistil Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' ...

is long. Flowering occurs may occur from April to August with the main flush in September. The fruit are scarcely woody, obliquely narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, long, wide, slightly curved on an elongated rachis.

Taxonomy and naming

The species was first formally described by the botanist Laurence Haegi in 1999 as part of the work ''Appendix: Hakea'' written by Haegi, W.R.Barker, R.M.Barker, and A.J.Wilson as published in ''

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''. The

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honours John Maconochie who was the botanist in charge of the Alice Springs Herbarium from 1967 to 1984 who had a keen interest in Hakeas.

Distribution and habitat

It is

to several isolated areas in far

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region of

. It was originally known from scattered localities in the Ambathala Range in the

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near

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. It generally grows in stony clay soil in scattered open '' Acacia stowardii'' communities.

Conservation status

''Hakea maconochieana'' is classified as vulnerable under Queensland's Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18081071 maconochieana Flora of Queensland