''Hakea ochroptera'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
Proteaceae
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and is
endemic
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to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a shrub with long, needle-shaped leaves and an abundance of cream-white flowers in spring.
Description
''Hakea ochroptera'' is a tall shrub or tree to high with descending branches 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 ...
. Young stems, leaves and
pedicel
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Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
s are hairy and rusty coloured. The leaves are needle-shaped, long and about wide ending with a point long. Creamy-white flowers appear in
umbels
In botany, an umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) that spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs. The word was coined in botanical usage in the 1590s, from Latin ''umbella'' "p ...
of up to six flowers in the leaf axils from September to October. The fruit are long and wide with small blister-like growths on the surface ending with an obscure or absent horn.
Taxonomy and naming
''Hakea ochroptera'' was first formally described in 1996 by South Australian botanist
William Barker William Barker may refer to:
Politicians
*William Barker (translator) ( 1570), English translator and MP for Great Yarmouth and Bramber
* William Barker (MP for Berkshire) (died 1685), English Member of Parliament for Berkshire
* Sir William Bark ...
and the description was published in the
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens
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.
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 ...
''(ochroptera)'' "derives from the Greek, ''ochros'', yellow, and ''pteron'', wing, alluding to an important diagnostic difference from ''
H. macraeana''".
Distribution and habitat
This hakea is found near
Dorrigo in northern New South Wales where it grows in shallow soil on hillsides on rock in light scrub or
depauperate
A depauperate ecosystem is an ecosystem which is lacking in numbers or variety of species, often because it lacks enough stored chemical elements and resources required for life. Thus, depauperate ecosystems often cannot support rapid growth of f ...
warm-temperate rainforest.
Dorrigo National Park
Dorrigo National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, north of Sydney on Dome Road off the Waterfall Way, east of the town of Dorrigo.
History
The park is part of the New England Group of the World Heritage Site Gondwana ...
Image:Hakea ochroptera flowers.jpg, Flowers
Image:Hakea ochroptera old fruit.jpg, Old, opened fruit.
References
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ochroptera
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1996
Taxa named by William Robert Barker