Hakea rhombales

Hakea rhombales, commonly known as Walukara,^[1] is a shrub of the genus Hakea native to an area in the Pilbara and the Goldfields regions of Western Australia.^[2]

The bushy shrub typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 3 metres (5 to 10 ft) and is usually just as wide. It blooms from April to September and produces red-pink-purple flowers.

The branchlets and young leaves are appressed-pubescent with ferruginous hairs but otherwise glabrescent. The simple leaves are 6.5 to 23 centimetres (3 to 9 in) long and 1.6 to 1.9 mm (0.06 to 0.07 in) wide.

Inflorescence are erect and sometimes from old wood, they contain 10–16 flowers with simple rachis simple that are 7 to 11 mm (0.28 to 0.43 in) long. The inflorescence is glabrous or appressed-pubescent with pedicels approximately 6 mm (0.24 in) long.

The fruit are formed in an obliquely obovate shape, 2.2 to 3.5 cm (0.9 to 1.4 in) long and 1.6 to 2.3 cm (0.6 to 0.9 in) wide. The fruit are black-pusticulate with a toothed crest found on either side of suture.^[3]

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