Hakea platysperma Hook.

Single-stemmed spreading shrub, 1-2 m tall, often slightly wider than high. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-pubescent, ferruginous. Leaves terete, 3-15.5 cm long, 1.4-3 mm wide, constricted at base and yellowish for c. 5 mm, ungrooved; mucro 1-4.5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary with 1-7 flowers; rachis obscure; pedicels 4.5-8 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent, with hairs dark brown. Perianth 5.5-6.5 mm long, cream-white becoming pink internally, appressed-pubescent, with white and ferruginous hairs externally. Pistil 15-17.5 mm long; pollen presenter 3-3.5 mm long. Fruit globose, 4.5-7.5 cm long, 3.8-6.5 cm wide, smooth; beak absent; apiculum obscure, lateral. Seed circular, 33-46 mm diam.; wing encircling seed body.

Grows in sandy heaths, the sand white or yellow and often over laterite.