Hakea sulcata, commonly known as furrowed hakea,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub with grooved, cylindrical leaves, sweetly-scented flowers and relatively small fruit.
Hakea sulcata is a small spreading or upright shrub that grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are either thickly or sparsely covered in flattened soft silky hairs at flowering time. The leaves are needle-shaped, thick, pentagonal in cross-section, more or less Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert in diameter and grow alternately on the branchlets. The leaves have 6 or 7 shallow longitudinal grooves and end in a sharp point. The leaves occasionally vary in shape, they may be linear, narrowly egg-shaped, flat or concave with prominent veins. The inflorescence consists of 8-14 white, sweetly scented flowers is a single raceme in clusters in the leaf axils or on old wood. The cream-white pedicels are smooth, the perianth cream-white and the pistilsШаблон:Cvt long. The egg-shaped fruit are the smallest in the genus less than Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The surface is generally smooth or slightly warty becoming rough with age and end in a point.[1][2][3]