Hakea collina
Hakea collina is a shrub in the Proteaceae native to eastern Australia. A small many branched shrub with gnarled branches with attractive cream-yellowish flowers. Description. "Hakea collina" is an intricately branched often gnarled shrub growing to high. Smaller branches and leaves have fine flattened silky hairs that remain until flowering. Straight needle-like leaves are crowded at the branch ends long and wide, sometimes grooved on the lower side. The inflorescence has two to twelve flowers with a white perianth long and the style is about long. The pedicel is long and covered with soft white hairs  extending onto the lower part of the flower. The egg-shaped fruit are finely wrinkled, narrower at the stem long and wide. Fruit taper to a short pointed tip long with no beak. The seeds are long with a wing that is on one side. Flowers in the colder months from May to July. Taxonomy. "Hakea collina" was first formally described by the botanist Cyril Tenison White in 1944 as part of the work "Contributions to the Queensland Flora" as published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland". The specific epithet ("collina") is derived from the Latin word  collinus meaning "of a hill" or "hilly", referring to the habitat where the shrub occurs. Distribution. It is endemic to an area in the south west of Queensland on lateritic tableland on hills and plains as a part of open "Acacia" woodland and shrubland communities. Conservation status. "Hakea collina" is classified as 'Poorly Known' in J.D.Briggs & J.H.Leigh, "Rare or Threatened Australian Plants" (1995).