Hakea drupacea

Dense, spreading or erect shrub or tree, 1–4 m high; branchlets appressed-pubescent. Leaves 3–13 cm long, 1–1.6 mm wide, usually divided into 2–8 terete segments, grooved above or not, glabrous or appressed-pubescent; mucro 0.5–1.5 mm long. Inflorescence 46–84-flowered; rachis 17–26 mm long, appressed-pubescent, with white or pale brown hairs; pedicel 4–10 mm long, glabrous; perianth straight in bud, 3–4 mm long, glabrous, pale pink ageing white; pistil 3.5–4.5 mm long; pollen presenter an erect cone. Fruit obliquely ovate on recurved stalk, 2–2.5 cm long, 1.6–1.9 cm wide, black, warted; horns 2–4 mm long; seed not occupying whole valve face, 16–20 mm long, winged partly down one side only, black or grey. Flowers Mar.–Jun.