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Hakea macrorrhyncha - profile

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Scientific name: Hakea macrorrhyncha
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Gazetted date: 24 May 2024
Profile last updated: 26 May 2025

Description

Erect shrub .8–6 m high, branchlets silky when young; lignotuber apparently absent.

Leaves terete, 3–9 cm long, 1–1.5 mm diam., at first tomentose, glabrescent, mucro 1–2 mm long.

Conflorescences axillary, clusters 3- or 4-flowered; rachis knob-like, white pubescent; pedicel 4–5.5 mm long, pubescent. Perianth 3–4 mm long, creamish, white tomentose. Gynoecium 6.5–8 mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc.

Follicle ovoid or obovoid, 35–45 mm long, 20–30 mm wide, the surface with rounded blisters; beak prominent, ? triangular, smooth, to 10 mm long; horns obscure.

Distribution

Hakea macrorrhyncha occurs in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland (Qld). The species is known from four main populations: Girraween National Park (Qld) and Bald Rock National Park (NSW) (same contiguous population), the Torrington area of the Northern Tablelands of NSW, Gibraltar Range/Washpool National Parks (NSW), Maryland National Park(NSW).

Habitat and ecology

  • Hakea macrorrhyncha is confined to shrubland heathland, layered open forest, and closed shrubby woodland on granite. Associated species/vegetation includes Eucalyptus andrewsii (New England blackbutt), E. bancroftii (orange gum), and Callitris endlicheri (black cypress pine) low closed woodland (Barker 1996). The Granites lookout population in Washpool National Park is a rocky site with E. planchoniana (needlebark stringybark), Leptospermum trinervium (flaky-barked tea-tree), Kunzea bracteolata, Callistemon flavovirens, Hovea pedunculata, Pseudanthus pauciflorus and Pultenaea pycnocephala

Regional distribution and habitat

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