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Hakea aenigma
Hakea aenigma, commonly known as the enigma hakea, is a critically endangered shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is one of two Hakea species totally reliant on suckering to reproduce therefore having "reached evolutionary dead-ends" as this method of reproduction greatly limits genetic variation. The entire population of this species may be of clonal colonies descended from a single individual.
This species is endemic to a small area on the western end of Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is confined to the more elevated parts of the lateritic plateau system, up to 100 metres above sea level and is part of the dense mallee-heath that grows in clay-loam to sandy soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hakea aenigma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
