Hakea ochroptera is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a shrub with long, needle-shaped leaves and an abundance of cream-white flowers in spring.
Hakea ochroptera is a tall shrub or tree to 12sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 high with descending branches and does not form a lignotuber. Young stems, leaves and pedicels are hairy and rusty coloured. The leaves are needle-shaped, long and about wide ending with a point long. Creamy-white flowers appear in umbels of up to six flowers in the leaf axils from September to October. The fruit are long and wide with small blister-like growths on the surface ending with an obscure or absent horn.[1]
Hakea ochroptera was first formally described in 1996 by South Australian botanist William Barker and the description was published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.[2] The specific epithet (ochroptera) "derives from the Greek, ochros, yellow, and pteron, wing, alluding to an important diagnostic difference from H. macraeana".[1] [3]
This hakea is found near Dorrigo in northern New South Wales where it grows in shallow soil on hillsides on rock in light scrub or depauperate warm-temperate rainforest.[1]