Hakea Schrader

1. Hakea Schrader View in CoL 1

Shrubs or small trees. Flowers zygomorphic, pedicellate, in dense axillary racemes or clusters; bracts deciduous. Perianth coiled in bud, partly straightening after anthesis; segments eventually free proximally but sometimes remaining connate distally, each consisting of a narrow claw and an orbicular-spathulate, concave

limb, on the inner side of which is an apparently sessile anther. Stigma large, oblique. Fruit woody, 2-valved, tardily dehiscent; seeds 2, winged. Leaves c. 1 mm in diameter, terete, pungent 1. sericea Leaves 5-20 mm wide, flat, not pungent 2. salicifolia