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Showing Hakea bucculenta
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Proteanae(superordo)
- Proteales(ordo)
- Proteaceae(fam.)
- Hakea(gen.)
- bucculenta(sp.)
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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."
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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."
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APC Comment: Frequently grown as an ornamental. Hybridises in cultivation with H. francisiana. -
APC Dist.: WA, SA (naturalised)