Hakea verrucosa

Hakea verrucosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Hakea
Species: H. verrucosa
Binomial name
Hakea verrucosa
F.Muell.

Hakea verrucosa is a shrub species in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to south-west Western Australia. Plants grow to between 0.8 and 3 metres high and produce pink to red and white flowers between May and August in the species native range.[1]

The species was first formally described in 1865 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller and published in the fifth volume of his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[2]

References

  1. "Hakea verrucosa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. "Hakea verrucosa". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
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