Hakea laurina

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Proteaceae

Trees or shrubs . Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or whorled , simple or variously divided . Inflorescences axillary , ramiflorous , cauliflorous , or terminal , simple or rarely compound , with flowers borne laterally either in pairs or sometimes singly, racemose, sometimes spicate , paniculate , or condensed into a head ; bracts subtending flower pairs usually small, sometimes accrescent and woody; floral bracts usually minute or absent. Flowers bisexual or rarely unisexual and dioecious, actinomorphic or zygomorphic. Perianth segments (3 or) 4(or 5), valvate , usually tubular in bud; limb short, variously split at anthesis . Stamens 4, opposite perianth segments; filaments usually adnate to perianth and not distinct ; anthers basifixed , usually 2-loculed, longitudinally dehiscent , connective often prolonged. Hypogynous glands 4 (or 1-3 or absent), free or variously connate . Ovary superior, 1-loculed, sessile or stipitate ; ovules 1 or 2(or more), pendulous, laterally or basally, rarely subapically attached. Style terminal, simple, often apically clavate ; stigma terminal or lateral , mostly small. Fruit a follicle, achene, or drupe or drupaceous . Seeds 1 or 2(or few to many), sometimes winged ; endosperm absent (or vestigial) ; embryo usually straight; cotyledons thin or thick and fleshy ; radicle short, inferior.

About 80 genera and ca. 1700 species: mostly in tropics and subtropics, especially in S Africa and Australia: three genera (one introduced ) and 25 species (12 endemic, two introduced) in China.

The family is subdivided into Bellendenoideae, Caranarvonioideae, Eidotheoideae, Grevilleoideae, Persoonioideae, Proteoideae, and Sphalmioideae; all Chinese genera belong to Grevilleoideae. Grevillea robusta is grown extensively as a street tree in S China, especially in Yunnan.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : R.Br. Publication : Prot. Nov. 29.

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hakea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 19 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

H. cucullata (Scallop Hakea) · H. cycloptera (Elm-Seed Hakea) · H. dactyloides (Finger Hakea) · H. decurrens (Hakea) · H. drupacea (Sweet Scented Pincushion Tree) · H. epiglottis (White Hakea) · H. eriantha (Tree Hakea) · H. flabellifolia (Wedge-Leaf Hakea) · H. laurina (Pincushion Hakea) · H. lissosperma (Hakea) · H. microcarpa (Small-Fruited Hakea) · H. nodosa (Yellow Hakea) · H. petiolaris (Sea Urchin Hakea) · H. purpurea (Hakea) · H. rostrata (Beaked Pincushion Tree) · H. salicifolia (Willow-Leaved Hakea) · H. sericea (Bushy Needlebush) · H. ulicina (Furze Hakea) · H. victoriae (Royal Hakea)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to our knowledge of seedlings; by the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., ltd., 1892. url p. 450, p. 457, p. 458.
• A supplementary list of Chinese flowering plants, 1904-1910, url .
• Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url , , p. 246, p. 416, p. 453.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information. Additional Series. Royal Gardens, Kew. 4 1900 [Kew, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens], 1898-1936; url p. 199.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 1086.
• Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. New York: The Garden and forest publishing co., 1888-97. url , , p. 19.
• Hortus Mortolensis: enumeratio plantarum in Horto Mortolensi cultarum = Alphabetical catalogue of plants growing in the garden of the late Sir Thomas Hanbury. .. at La Mortola, Ventimiglia, Italy / compiled by Alwin Berger. London: West, Newman, 1912. url p. 393.
• Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 59.
• List of intercepted plant pests / United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.], 1932- url p. 74.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 39, p.
• Pamphlets on silviculture. [1899- url p. 1071.
• Plants for California landscapes: a catalog of drought tolerant plants. [Sacramento, Calif.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Water Resources, [1979] url p. 23.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 265.
• Report on the forests of British East Africa. LondonPrinted for His Majesty's Stationery Off. by Darling1909 url p. 122.
• Standardized plant names; a catalogue of approved scientific and common names of plants in American commerce. Salem, Mass., 1923. url p. 464.
• Studies in ornamental trees and shrubs. By Harvey Monroe Hall. Berkeley, The University Press, 1910. url p. 14, p. 15, p. 17.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 162, p. 34, p. 383, p. 835.
• The Florists' exchange: a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. New York, N.Y.: [A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., url p. 1386.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url , p. 193, p. 227, p. 236, p. 239, p. 472, p. 544, p. 630, p. 97.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , , p. 133, p. 148, p. 260, p. 352, p. 448, p. 696, p. 729, p. 730, p. 76, p. 763.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 39 1909-11 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 540.
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 5.
• The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists / by Geo. Nicholson. .. [et al.]. Hyde Park, Mass.: Geo. T. King; 1901. url p. 414.
• The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada, edited by L. H. Bailey. London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1923. url p. 389, p. 407.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1428.
• Trees & shrubs for English gardens. [London]"Country life", 1908. url p. 257, p. 646.
• Vernacular list of trees, shrubs, and woody climbers in the Madras Presidency. Madras, Printed by the Superintendant, Government Press, 1915. url p. 252, p. 697, p. 978.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 05, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3478180
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15800653
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:704233-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 704233-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 743288

Footnotes

1. Huaxing Qiu & Peter H. Weston "Proteaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 192. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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