''Hakea pritzelii'' is a flowering shrub in the family

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and is

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to a few small areas in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It has rigid, pale green leaves and scented red-purple flowers.

Description

''Hakea pritzelli'' is an erect, dense, spreading shrub typically growing to a height of . It blooms from July to August and produces sweetly scented red-purple flowers with a light green style in clusters in leaf axils or along stems on old wood. The leaves are

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, thick, rigid and stem clasping with a prominent sharp point. The pale green leaves vary from being entire to shallowly divided having 3, 5 or 9 small very sharp, prickly teeth. The fruit are long and wide with corky spines on the external surface.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea pritzelii'' was first formally described in 1904

Ludwig Diels Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist. Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Prit ...

and the description was published in ''

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''. The species was named after the German botanist

Ernst Georg Pritzel Ernst Georg Pritzel (15 May 1875 – 6 April 1946) was a German botanist. He is known for his research in the fields of phytogeography and taxonomy. He contributed works on Lycopodiaceae, Psilotaceae and Pittosporaceae to Engler & Prantl’s "Die ...

who travelled with Ludwig Diels collecting specimens of Western Australia flora.

Distribution and habitat

''Hakea pritzelii'' grows from Cranbrook and the

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to Gnowangerup in heath and scrubland in white sand. Often found in low lying seasonally wet areas. A good habitat plant due to its dense prickly habit.

Conservation status

Although ''Hakea pritzelii'' has a restricted range, it is considered "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18082927 pritzelii Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1904