Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Hakea bucculenta
Proteaceae Juss.
Hakea bucculenta C.A.Gardner , legitimate, scientific
Gardner, C.A. (1936), Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, IX. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 22: 123 [primary reference]
  • Type: "Austin district: In red sand in thickets, 30 miles north of the Murchison River to the south of Shark Bay, W.E.Blackall and C.A.Gardner, 29th August, 1931. ...The Type is Gardner 2571, State Herbarium, Western Australia."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 63 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 361-362 (map), 366 (plate) [secondary reference]
common name: red pokers [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From Latin, bucca, a cheek, and the suffix, -ulentus, indicating a marked development of; refers to the swollen fruits which Gardner likened to a pair of cheeks."
Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 164-165, Plate 27, Map 164 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Frequently grown as an ornamental. Hybridises in cultivation with H. francisiana.
  • APC Dist.: WA, SA (naturalised)