Hakea maconochieana

Hakea maconochieana is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a rare species with red flowers, needle-like leaves and an upright or spreading shrub.

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Hakea maconochieana is an upright or spreading shrub typically growing to a height of 0.5 to 1.5 metres (2 to 5 ft) and does not form a lignotuber. The leaves are flat, thick, 7 to 13.5 centimetres (3 to 5 in) long, 1.5 to 2.7 centimetres (0.6 to 1.1 in) wide, patchily covered with flattened soft hairs, prominent veins, finely ribbed and ending with a more or less blunt tip. The branchlets at flowering are sparsely covered with flattened silky hairs. The inflorescence consists of about 100 red flowers on a stem 3–3.5 cm (1.2–1.4 in) long with rough, coarse longish hairs. The pedicel has few or moderately covered with soft hairs. The red perianth has occasional flattened, silky hairs and the pistil is 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in) long. Flowering occurs may occur from April to August with the main flush in September. The fruit are scarcely woody, obliquely narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, 1.4–1.7 cm (0.55–0.67 in) long, 0.6–0.7 cm (0.24–0.28 in) wide, slightly curved on an elongated rachis.