Hakea dactyloides

Erect single-stemmed bushy shrub or small tree, 2.4-4.5 m high, non-sprouting; branchlets glabrescent or sparsely appressed-pubescent at flowering. Leaves narrowly elliptic to almost linear, rarely narrowly obovate, sometimes falcate, 4–13 cm long, 8–30 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate; longitudinal veins 3, usually more prominent on lower surface. Inflorescence 20–30-flowered; pedicel appressed-pubescent; perianth white, glabrous; pistil 4.0–4.5 mm long; pollen presenter conical. Fruit obliquely elliptic, slightly curved, 2.5–3.5 cm long, 1.7–2.3 cm wide, not beaked; horns lacking; seed not occupying whole valve face, obliquely obovate, 18–23 mm long; wing extending only down one side of body. Flowers Sep.–Dec.