Hakea lissocarpha R.Br.

Dense shrub, erect or spreading, 0.25-3 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, villous or appressed-pubescent. Leaves rigid, compound-terete, 0.9-4 cm long, grooved above or not; ultimate segments up to 14, 0.4-1.3 mm wide. Inflorescence axillary or terminal on short shoots with 20-30 flowers; involucre 3-6 mm long; rachis 2.5-7 mm long, tomentose, with hairs white or cream-yellow; pedicels 3-9 mm long. Perianth 2.5-4 mm long, white, pale yellow or pink. Pistil 3-4 mm long. Fruit obliquely ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 0.7-1.4 cm wide, smooth, black-pusticulate, obscurely apiculate; horns 2-3 mm long. Seed ovate, 9-20 mm long; wing narrowly down one or both sides or encircling seed-body.

It is usually associated with laterite, often within Eucalyptus wandoo forest, but has also been recorded from granite, sand and clay and from mallee heaths.

The nectar is sucked from the flowers or used to make a drink.