Hakea myrtoides Meisn.

Sprawling multi-stemmed shrub, 0.2-0.5 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets moderately villous and appressed-pubescent at flowering. Leaves elliptic-acuminate to broadly elliptic-acuminate, flat, 1-1.7 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, glabrescent; midvein and marginal veins prominent above and below; secondary veins scarcely visible. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, clustered into subterminal brushes, with 6-10 flowers per axil; pedicels deep pinkish red, glabrous, glaucous. Perianth deep pinkish red. Pistil 13-18 mm long; gland a small flap. Fruit obliquely broadly ovate, 1-1.1 cm long, 0.6-0.8 cm wide, obscurely beaked. Seed obliquely broadly elliptic, 6-8 mm long; wing narrowly encircling seed body at sides and base, blackish brown, sometimes with paler patches.

Grows in lateritic sandy clay soil, often in Eucalyptus wandoo woodland-heath in association with granite outcrops.