Hakea ilicifolia facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Hakea ilicifolia |
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Hakea
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ilicifolia
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Hakea ilicifolia is an open shrub or tree in the family Proteacea and is endemic to Western Australia.
Description
Hakea ilicifolia is an open multi-stemmed shrub or tree typically growing to a height of 1 to 3 metres (3.3 to 9.8 ft). It blooms from August to October and produces strongly and sweetly scented creamy-white or yellow flowers in clusters in the leaf axils on outer branchlets. Rough and warty fruit are rounded with 2 curving horns.
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1810. It was named from the genus Ilex - holly and the Latin folium - leaf, referring to the holly-shaped leaves.
Distribution and habitat
It is endemic to a few isolated areas in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It has a scattered distribution between Denmark in the south and west, Dumbleyung in the north and Esperance in the east where it is found on breakaway slopes and near creeks growing in sandy, loamy or clay soils over sandstone or laterite and a part of heathland or low Eucalypt woodland communities.
Conservation status
Hakea ilicifolia is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
