Tree 30 m, with adventitious roots up to Vhm above the soil; bark brownish, slightly dotted with pustular lenticels which are sometimes arranged in short longitudinal rows, or bark very finely longitudinally cracked with a few, small, corky scaled patches; innovations ferrugineous-pubescent, soon glabrous. Leaves narrow-obovate, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, but not decurrent on the stout petiole, subcoriaceous, glabrous, glossy-green above with veins slightly prominent and yellowish when fresh, paler beneath, in dry specimens green above, greyish below, 14-23(-28) by 3.5-5 (-7) cm; midrib prominent beneath, nerves 18-20 pairs prominent on both faces, veins and veinlets laxly reticulate and somewhat raised above, more distinctly so beneath; petiole 1-1.5(-2) cm by 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. Racemes dense-flowered, axillary, often ramiflorous, incl. the short peduncle 13-20 cm long, ferrugineous-tomentose all over. Pedicels c. 1 cm by 1 mm. Disk horseshoe-shaped. Flowers rusty-brown when fresh. Perianth segments 7-8 mm. Ovary rufous-pilose, on a very or rather short stipe; stipe and style glabrescent. Style and stigma green when fresh. Fruit globular, brownish, c. 5 cm diam., suture visible; exocarp thin; endocarp bony, 7-8 mm thick. Seed 1, round, compressed, c. 3 by 1-1 1/3 cm.
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A tree up to 30 m tall with adventitious roots up to 1.5 m above the ground. Leaves are long (25 cm) and narrow (5 cm) and without hairs. Flowers are rusty brown in long strings up to 20 cm long. Fruit are about 5 cm across. They have one seed inside. Possibly now Hakea ferruginiflora (C. T. White) Christenh. & Byng.
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