Hakea sericea

Shrub to small tree, 0.6–4.5 m high; lignotuber absent; young branchlets densely woolly-tomentose, tomentum usually persistent. Leaves terete, spreading widely or angled to stem, mostly 2–4.3 cm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, grooved below, soon glabrous; apex straight. Inflorescence (1–)4–6-flowered; rachis 0.5–2.2 mm long, densely woolly-tomentose; pedicel 2.2–4.6 mm long, villous to hirsute; perianth 2.5–4.7 mm long, white or cream, glabrous; pistil (4.5–)5–7(–7.5) mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc. Fruit broadly ovoid to globoid, (2–)2.5–3(–4) cm long, 2–3.2 cm wide, finely or coarsely tuberculate to deeply wrinkled; beak usually similarly patterned to body; horns 0.5–3 mm long, often obscure; seed not occupying whole valve face, mostly 19–25 mm long, 7–10 mm wide; seed body 5.5–8.7 mm long, finely wrinkled or warted; wing down one side only, or unequally down both sides. Flowers Jul.–Oct.