''Hakea persiehana'' is a shrub or small tree in the genus ''

Hakea ''Hakea'' ( ) is a genus of about 150 species of plants in the Family ''Proteaceae'', endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with leaves that are sometimes flat, otherwise circular in cross section in which case they are sometimes d ...

'' , which comprises approximately 150 species restricted to Australia. Most ''Hakea'' seed are usually dispersed by an environmental trigger rather than when seed matures, quite often by fire, whilst other species may require sporadic flooding rains to establish. ''Hakea'' is within the family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...

Description

''Hakea persiehana'' is a shrub or small tree growing in height with a spreading canopy and dark grey deeply grooved cork-like bark.

Terete Terete is a term in botany used to describe a cross section that is circular, or like a distorted circle, with a single surface wrapping around it.Lichen Vocabulary, Lichens of North America Information, Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff/ref> This is us ...

leaves are long and wide. About 50–100 cream-white flowers per inflorescence appear between November and February, occasionally May to June. The fruit is obliquely egg-shaped, long and wide, and gradually tapers into a recurved beak about long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea persiehana'' was first formally described by

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

in 1886 and published in the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy. The species was named after druggist W. Anthony Persieh, a prolific collector for Mueller of Queensland flora.

Distribution and habitat

''Hakea persiehana'' grows on

Cape York Peninsula Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación ...

a large

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

in far North Queensland as far south as the Atherton. Occurs in open woodland usually with

Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...

and

Melaleuca ''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of '' Leptospermum''). They range in size ...

Conservation status

''Hakea persiehana'' is considered "least concern" by the Department of Environment and Science, Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18080388 persiehana Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1886 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller