''Hakea fraseri'', the corkwood oak, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family ''

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to northern New South Wales. It has furrowed bark, pendulous foliage and creamy-white flowers in spring.

Description

''Hakea fraseri'' is a shrub or small tree growing to high with multiple stems, dark grey rough bark and does not form a

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. The branchlets are a whitish colour, covered with flattened, soft hairs, new shoots glossy rusty coloured hairs over glossy white hairs. The leaves are simple, varying length with a weeping habit, long wide, more or less smooth and ending with hook. The

inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...

consists of 25-50 cream-white flowers borne in leaf axils on a stalk long that is covered with reddish-brown, short, matted hairs over whitish flattened hairs. The

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long, thickly covered with flattened hairs that extend onto the cream-white

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when in bud, the

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long. The fruit is narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide and a long obscure beak. Flowering occurs in spring.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1830 by

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and the description was published in '' Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae''. The

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''(fraseri)'' honours Charles Fraser the first colonial botanist and Superintendent of the New South Wales botanic gardens.

Distribution and habitat

Corkwood oak is a rare species in

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confined to the New England Tablelands below Wollomombi, Dangar,

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and Apsley Falls on steep slopes and vertical rock situations in gorges.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18082590 fraseri Flora of New South Wales