Английская Википедия:Hakea preissii
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Hakea preissii, commonly known as the needle tree,[1] needle bush and Christmas hakea,[2] is a shrub or tree of the genus Hakea native to Western Australia. The Noongar name for the plant is Tanjinn.[3]
Description
Hakea preissii is a shrub or tree which typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert. It has branchlets that are moderately to densely appressed-pubescent on new growth, quickly glabrescent, and glaucous in their second year. The rigid, simple leaves are rarely divided apically into 2 or 3 segments, Шаблон:Convert in length and Шаблон:Convert in width. Inflorescence are axillary with 4–28 yellow-green flowers with persistent pedicels Шаблон:Convert long. Smooth grey to black fruit that are obliquely ovate or elliptic, dilated apically and approximately Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. It blooms from August to December.[4]
Taxonomy
Hakea preissii was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meissner in 1845 from a specimen collected in a forest near York. The description was published in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's work Plantae Preissianae.[5][6][7] The specific epithet (preissii) honours Ludwig Preiss who collected plant specimens in Western Australia between 1838 and 1842.[4]
Distribution and habitat
Needle tree is endemic to an area in the Pilbara, Wheatbelt, Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It has a scattered distribution and is found as far north as Tom Price and south as Gnowangerup. It is found along the west coast and a little farther east than Kalgoorlie. The plant is found on plains and around the margins of salt marshes growing in sand, loam and sandy-clay soils.[1] It sometimes invades semi-arid pastoral land in Western Australia.[8]
Conservation
This species is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[1]
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Hakea preissii fruit
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Hakea preissii habit
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