Spreading multi-stemmed woody shrub 1-3 m high, or single-stemmed to 5 m high, lignotuberous. Branchlets appressed-pubescent, with white and ferruginous hairs, quickly glabrescent apart from white appressed hairs at leaf bases. Leaves terete, not grooved, 2.5-7.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, initially with white and ferruginous appressed hairs, quickly glabrescent; apex usually somewhat uncinate (not quite as markedly as H. tephrosperma ). Inflorescence of 8-26 flowers; rachis 3-6.5 mm long, simple but with potential to branch from ferruginous bud on rachis, densely appressed- to ±raised-pubescent with ferruginous hairs, sometimes mixed with white hairs; pedicels 2.5-3 mm long, sparsely appressed-pubescent, with hairs predominantly white. Perianth 2.5-3 mm long; claw glabrous except at very base; limb with sparse white-appressed hairs. Pistil 7-7.5 mm long. Fruit 19-23 mm long, 7-12.5 mm wide, ±smooth, grey or grey-black; beak oblique, comprising c. 1/3 length of fruit; horns eroded. Seed 14-16.5 mm long, 6-7 mm wide; wing decurrent 1/2-3/4 way down one side of seed body only, light brown to grey-yellow.

Flowers Nov.-Feb.

Occurs in central-southern W.A. from Cowcowing and Cunderdin to Lake Bryde and east to near Rawlinna and Madura.

Usually found in sandy areas associated with salt lakes.

W.A.: c. 16 km ESE of Mt Buraminya, W.Archer 206903 (AD); Cowcowing, M.Koch 980 (NSW, PERTH).

Hakea leucoptera occurs further to the north than H. kippistiana and can be distinguished from the latter by its much longer and thicker leaves, larger flowers and fruit and the white hairs on the rachis.

J.Young, Hakeas of W. Australia, Botanical District of Avon 15, 56 (1997).

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 16 (1995), 17A (2000) and 17B (1999), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia