Flora of New Zealand Series

Shrubs or small trees. Lvs alternate, terete to broadly flattened, sometimes with spiny apex. Fls axillary, bracteate, usually few to many in clusters, occasionally in globose heads, ⚥, pedicellate. Perianth tube slender, straight at first but later curving back and usually the segments becoming free; limb ± globose. Anthers sessile in the concave perianth segments. Nectaries united to form a large or small horseshoe-shaped or completely annular gland. Ovary glabrous, usually shortly stipitate; ovules 2; style usually > perianth, curved and protruding from perianth slit in immature fl.; apex dilated, forming an oblique disc or lateral cone; stigma small, in centre of dilated style. Fr. a very woody, ± ovoid capsule splitting into 2 solid valves with flat inner faces. Seeds 2, with a broad terminal wing sometimes continuing down the upper and rarely the lower margin.

c. 100 spp., Australia. Naturalised spp. 4.

The frs of the 4 naturalised Hakea spp. are illustrated in Fig. 95.

Fig. 95. Frs of Hakea. A H. gibbosa; B H. salicifolia; C H. sericea; D H. suaveolens. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X6P]