''Hakea repullulans'', commonly known as the furze hakea, is a flowering plant in the

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found in Victoria and South Australia.

Description

''Hakea repullulans'' is an erect shrub growing tall. It resprouts from a lignotuber often suckering from horizontal roots. The branchlets are densely covered with short, soft, matted hairs and become smooth at flowering. The leaves can be narrowly egg-shaped to long and narrow and twisted at the base long and wide with generally 3-5 prominent longitudinal veins above and below. Each

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has 10–36 cream-white flowers appearing in the leaf axils. Flowering occurs mostly in spring and the fruit is obliquely egg-shaped, slightly curved towards apex, long, wide, and tapering to a small beak.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hakea repullulans'' was first formally described in 1984 by H.M. Lee and the description was published in the ''

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''. It is named from the Latin ''repullulans'' for sprouting again, with reference to the lignotuberous resprouting and suckering habit of this species.

Distribution and habitat

Furze hakea occurs from south-eastern South Australia to the

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and western regions of Victoria and east to the

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also near Sale in

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. This species grows in acidic sandy soil in sclerophyll forests and scattered populations in mallee-heath.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18079791 repullulans Plants described in 1985 Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of South Australia Proteales of Australia