Hakea prostrata R.Br.

Erect prostrate or sprawling shrub or small tree, 0.3-4 m tall, 1.5-2 m wide, lignotuberous. Branchlets glabrous or villous. Leaves elliptic to broadly obovate throughout, 1.5-5.5 cm long, 10-35 mm wide, cordate or auriculate (auricles toothed or entire), dentate whole length or in upper half only, with 1-13 1-5 mm long teeth per side, woolly-tomentose or glabrous when young; mucro 1.5-3 mm long. Inflorescence in upper axils, with 10-16 flowers; involucre 2-3 mm long; rachis 4.5-9.5 mm long, villous or glabrous; pedicels 6-10.5 mm long. Perianth 3.5-5.5 mm long, cream-white, pink or red. Pistil 8.5-13 mm long. Fruit ovate, 2.3-3.8 cm long, 1-1.6 cm wide, smooth with scattered truncate prickles, glabrous. Seed 18-20 mm long; wing partly down one or both sides of seed body.

Found on white or grey sand, gravel or sandy clay in low dense heath, Eucalyptus woodland, coastal heath or Jarrah woodland.

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