Hakea incrassata R.Br.

Low compact shrub, 0.2-1.6 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets white-tomentose. Leaves rigid, flat, narrowly obovate, 1.1-8.5 cm long, 3-11 mm wide, usually twisted at base, attenuate above dilated base, entire, rounded or acute apically, appressed-sericeous, quickly glabrescent. Inflorescence axillary, often arising from old wood, with 6-16 flowers; involucre 4 mm long; pedicels 4-9 mm long, villous, with hairs white or pale brown. Perianth 2 mm long, hirsute, with hairs white or pale brown. Pistil 1.9-2.5 mm long. Fruit globular with tiny lateral apiculum, 1.7-3.3 cm long, 1.5-3.2 cm wide, smooth or black-pusticulate. Seed 12-20 mm diam.; wing encircling seed body.

Usually found in low open heath in sand or sand over quartzite, laterite or gravel.