''Hakea newbeyana'' is a shrub in the family ''

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'' and is endemic to an area in the southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub with smooth grey bark and sweetly scented cream-yellow flowers in profusion in spring.

Description

''Hakea newbeyana'' is a rigid, spreading, rounded shrub typically growing to a height of with ascending smooth grey branches and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are densely covered in flattened rusty-coloured, soft hairs. The rigid dark green leaves are needle-shaped, long, wide, straight to slightly curved and ending in a sharp point long. The 6-8 small, sweetly scented creamy-white and yellow flowers appear in clusters in leaf axils on a coarse rough stalk long. The over-lapping flower bracts are long. The pedicel long and smooth. The smooth, yellow perianth is long 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'' ...

long. Flowering occurs from September to October. The large, grey, egg-shaped fruit are smooth with darker blister-like pitting on the surface and taper to a small blunt beak.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea newbeyana'' was first formally described by

Robyn Mary Barker Robyn M. Barker (born 1948) is an Honorary Research Associate of the South Australian Herbarium. She now works part-time, her duties include maintenance of the Vascular Plant Census for the State. Barker's research interests also include syst ...

in 1990 and the description was published in the '' Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens''. The species was named in honour of Western Australian botanist

Kenneth Newbey Kenneth Raymond Newbey (11 June 1936 – 24 July 1988) was a plant ecologist, botanical collector and horticulturist. Born in Katanning, Western Australia, he collected over 12000 specimens from the Albany- Esperance, Wheatbelt, goldfields and Pi ...

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in the central and eastern wheatbelt region of Western Australia in sandy loam and

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 ...

gravelly soils. Also in woodlands of the Hyden- Newdgate district.

Conservation Status

''Hakea newbeyana'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18080492 newbeyana Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1990 Taxa named by Robyn Mary Barker