Hakea ochroptera

Hakea ochroptera is a tall shrub or tree to 12 m (40 ft) high with descending branches and does not form a lignotuber. Young growth ie; stems, young leaves and pedicels are hairy and rusty coloured. Needle shaped leaves are narrow and 0.5–1.2 mm (0.02–0.05 in) long and 0.75–1.1 mm (0.03–0.04 in) wide ending with a point 1.1–2.2 mm (0.04–0.09 in) long. Creamy-white flowers appear in umbels of 1-6 flowers in the leaf axils from September to October. Fruit are 3.2–4 cm (1–2 in) long by 2.1–2.3 cm (0.8–0.9 in) wide with small blister-like growths on the surface ending with an obscure or absent horn.[2][3]

Hakea ochroptera was first formally described in 1996 by South Australian botanist William Barker and the description was published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.[4] The specific epithet (ochroptera) "derives from the Greek, ochros, yellow, and pteron, wing, alluding to an important diagnostic difference from H. macraeana.[3][5]

Found near Dorrigo in northern New South Wales, it was separated from the similar species H. macraeana. Hakea ochroptera grows in shallow soil on hillsides between rock in light scrub or depauperate warm-temperate rainforest.[2][3]