Hakea elliptica

Erect shrub, 2–5 m high; lignotuber absent; branchlets densely tomentose at flowering with reddish-brown hair. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, 4.5–9.5 cm long, 15–55 mm wide, flat, apex obtuse to subacute; longitudinal veins 3–5, prominent. Inflorescence 35–40-flowered; pedicel glabrous; perianth cream to white, glabrous; pistil 6–7.5 mm long; pollen presenter conical. Fruit obliquely elliptic, 2.5–3.7 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, not or hardly beaked; horns lacking; seed not occupying whole valve face, obliquely ovate, 20–25 mm long; wing extending broadly down one side of the body, partially and narrowly down the other. Flowers Nov.–Jan.