Peter Riley<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hakea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hakea</span></a> belongs to the ancient plant family <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proteaceae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Proteaceae</span></a>, which split into two subfamilies, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grevilleoideae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grevilleoideae</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proteoideae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Proteoideae</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/southafrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>southafrica</span></a> before the separation of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gondwanaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gondwanaland</span></a> continent around 140 million years ago.</p><p>*Image by Corynocarpus CC BY-SA 4.0</p><p>Proteaceae<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteaceae" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteace</span><span class="invisible">ae</span></a></p><p>Grevilleoideae <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevilleoideae" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greville</span><span class="invisible">oideae</span></a></p><p>Proteoideae <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteoideae" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteoid</span><span class="invisible">eae</span></a></p><p>Gondwana <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BloomScrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BloomScrolling</span></a></p>