Hakea macrocarpa
Hakea macrocarpa, commonly known as dogwood hakea, is a shrub or tree in the family "Proteaceae". It has cream-yellow flowers from May to June. It is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Description. The erect slender tall shrub or tree typically grows to a height of . The trunk and branches have black-brown furrowed bark and it is able to resprout from the base. Branchlets are covered in fine matted hair. The leaf petiole is in length and the narrowly linear thick lamina is in length and wide. It blooms from May to October and  produces cream-green-yellow flowers. Each inflorescence is composed of 40 to 200 cream-yellow flowers with a perianth that is long. The pistil has a length of with a straight or curved style and an oblique pollen presenter. After flowering fruit form with a curved beak that are in length containing seeds that are long and wide with a wing down over half of one side. Taxonomy. The species was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown as published in the work "Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae". The recognised synonyms are "Grevillea alphonsiana" published by  Ferdinand von Mueller and "Hakea morrisoniana", described as a new species by William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1918, the epithet commemorating Alexander Morrison. The specific epithet is derived from the ancient Greek words "makros" (μακρός) meaning "long" and "karpos" (καρπός) meaning "fruit". Distribution. It is endemic to an area in the central Northern Territory and the Kimberley, Pilbara and Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia where it has a scattered distribution. The plant is commonly found among coastal sand dunes, on sandplains and on and around rocky ridges where it grows in red sandy soils.