Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Hakea aenigma
Proteaceae Juss.
Hakea aenigma W.R.Barker & Haegi , legitimate, scientific
Barker, W.R. & Haegi, L. (15 July 1985), Taxonomy of the South Australian species allied to Hakea ulicina R.Br. (Proteaceae). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 7(3): 261, fig. 7 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "W.R. Barker 4479 & L. Haegi 6.x.1982, `South Australia. Region 12: Kangaroo Island. 35°49′S, 136°46′E. Flinders Chase; Shackle Road, ca. 2.8 km by road S of Playford Highway, ca. 1.5 km by road NNE of N crossing of Bull Creek'. AD 98346065. Isotypi: MEL, NSW, K, CANB, PERTH."
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 358 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Latin, aenigma, a riddle, 'in reference to the puzzlingly unsuccessful repeated searches for fruits, the unusual life history of the species and the long uncertainty about its identity and affinities' (Haegi and Barker, 1985)."
Barker, W.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Proteaceae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 8 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Hakea cf. francisiana [n/a]
Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 149, Map 144 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Hakea cf. francisiana [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: SA