Scientific Name: Hakea decurrens subsp. platytaenia

Common Name: coast needlebush

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Proteaceae

Form Description: Monoecious shrub; open, woody, prickly.

Height (m): 0.5 – 5

Flowers: Inflorescences 4–8-flowered; cream to pink spider-like flowers.

Fruit: Woody seed follicle – ovate, 2.5–3.5 cm long; valves thick, woody. Seed and wing blackish-brown, 15–20 mm long, wing extending only down one side of seed.

Municipality
Flinders
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationDry Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Furneaux Group – coastal sandy heaths, open shrubberies and woodlands, from sea level to about 300m.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method

Seed Information