Plants of
South Australia
Hakea ednieana
Proteaceae
Flinders Range Hakea,
Flinders Ranges Corkwood,
Corkbark
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Common names

Flinders Range Hakea

Flinders Ranges Corkwood

Corkbark

Etymology

Hakea named after Baron Christian Ludwig von Hake (1745-1818), a German horticulturalist and patron of botany. Ednieana, named after John Ednie Brown (1848-1899), a Scottish born sylviculturist, Conservator of Forests in South Australia and author of Forest Flora of South Australia.

Distribution and status

Found in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, growing on rocky cliff faces and in creek lines. Also a disjunct occurrence on Floods Creek Station in north-western New South Wales. Native. Common in South Australia. Rare in New South Wales.
Herbarium regions: Lake Eyre, Flinders Ranges, Eastern
NRM regions: Northern and Yorke, South Australian Arid Lands
AVH map: SA distribution map (external link)

Plant description

Shrub or small tree to 5 m high with furrowed brown bark and white hairy branches and leaves. Leaves compound, to 7 cm long; terete, sometimes obscurely grooved below, white hairs; divided many times with a pungent tip. Inflorescence a spike with 35�100 white flowers. Flowering between September and December. Fruits are red-brown woody narrow ovoid fruit to 28 mm long, often pubescent. Fruit splits into two to reveal two seeds. Seeds are brown ovoid seed to 8 mm long and 5 mm wide (25 mm long and 7 mm wide including the wing that extend narrowly down both sides of seed). Seed embryo type is investing.

Seed collection and propagation

Collect seeds between December and March. Collect mature woody fruit that are brown and not split. These will contain seeds. Place the woody fruit in a tray and leave to dry until it split open. Place the dried fruit in a bucket and shake to dislodge the seeds from the valves. Separate the seeds from the fruit and store the seeds with a desiccant such as dried silica beads or dry rice, in an air tight container in a cool and dry place. From one collection, the seed viability was average, at 75%. Seeds are non-dormant, viable seed should germinate readily without pre-treatment.

Seeds stored:
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LocationNo. of seeds
(weight grams)
Number
of plants
Date
collected
Collection number
Collection location
Date
stored
% ViabilityStorage
temperature
BGA2,600 (52.06 g)1511-Feb-2011KHB559
Flinders Ranges
1-Jan-201275%-18°C
Location: BGA — the seeds are stored at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, MSB — the seeds are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew, England.
Number of plants: This is the number of plants from which the seeds were collected.
Collection location: The Herbarium of South Australia's region name.
% Viability: Percentage of filled healthy seeds determined by a cut test or x-ray.