2047.000 Hakea Schrad.

Shrubs or small trees with 2-armed hairs; young growth glabrous or hairy. Leaves sessile sometimes cupped around the stem, or with attenuated base resembling petiole; lamina simple or compound, flat or terete; margins toothed or entire. Inflorescence developing within a cone of involucral bracts, or not, usually axillary, rarely from older wood or terminal, few flowered umbelliform racemes on short rhachis, sometimes many flowered on elongated rhachis; flowers pedicellate, usually paired; tepals splitting at base or remaining fused and splitting adaxially only. Fruit modified follicles, variously woody, often beaked, sometimes horned, usually tardily dehiscent; valves splitting fully, or partly down one or both sides. Seeds flattened on one side with a wing clasped between valves.

Worldwide: 149 species in Australia.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.