Hakea pendens

Hakea pendens is a shrub of the genus Hakea native to a small area in the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.[1]

Hakea pendens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Hakea
Species:
H. pendens
Binomial name
Hakea pendens
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 ft) and a width of 2.5 to 3.1 metres (8 to 10 ft). It blooms from July to September and produces plentiful large pendulous pink-white flowers that hang from short branched stems on old wood. The terete dark green leaves are 2–4 cm (0.8–2 in) long by about 2 mm (0.08 in) wide ending with a sharp point. Smooth grey obovate fruit, sometimes with darker grey speckling are about 3 cm (1 in) long and 1.5–2 cm (0.6–0.8 in) wide.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

The species was first formally described by Robyn Mary Barker in 1990 and published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden from a specimen collected near Marvel Loch.[4][5] The specific epithet (pendens) is a Latin word meaning "hanging".[6]

References
  1. "Hakea pendens". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. Young, J A. Hakeas of Western Australia:A Field and Identification Guide. J A Young. ISBN 0-9585778-2-X.
  3. Holliday, Ivan. Hakeas:A Field and Garden Guide. Reed New Holland. ISBN 1-877069-14-0.
  4. "Hakea pendens". APNI. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  5. Barker, Robyn Mary (1990). "New species, new combinations and other changes in Hakea (Proteaceae)" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. 13: 100–101. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  6. Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 596.
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