Hakea newbeyana is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to an area in the southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub with smooth grey bark and sweetly scented cream-yellow flowers in profusion in spring.
Hakea newbeyana is a rigid, spreading, rounded shrub typically growing to a height of 1to with ascending smooth grey branches and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are densely covered in flattened rusty-coloured, soft hairs. The rigid dark green leaves are needle-shaped, long, wide, straight to slightly curved and ending in a sharp point long. The 6-8 small, sweetly scented creamy-white and yellow flowers appear in clusters in leaf axils on a coarse rough stalk long. The over-lapping flower bracts are long. The pedicel long and smooth. The smooth, yellow perianth is long and the pistil long. Flowering occurs from September to October. The large, grey, egg-shaped fruit are smooth with darker blister-like pitting on the surface and taper to a small blunt beak.[1] [2]
Hakea newbeyana was first formally described by Robyn Mary Barker in 1990 and the description was published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.[3] [4] The species was named in honour of Western Australian botanist Kenneth Newbey.[1]
This species grows in the central and eastern wheatbelt region of Western Australia in sandy loam and lateritic gravelly soils. Also in woodlands of the Hyden-Newdgate district.[2]
Hakea newbeyana is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government.[5]