Hakea erecta

The leaves may be either smooth or hairy, 4–10 cm (2–4 in) long and 2.5–5 mm (0.098–0.20 in) wide, linear, flat and twisted at the base and end in a sharp point.

The single inflorescence has 16-24 pink-cream sweetly scented flowers in a raceme and appear in clusters in the leaf axils mostly in upper branchlets.

[2][3][4][5] This hakea was first formally described in 1987 by Byron Lamont from a specimen collected near Pingrup and the description was published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.

[6] The specific epithet (erecta) is a Latin word meaning "upright",[7] referring to the more or less erect stems, leaves and fruit.

[4] It is endemic to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in scrubland and low woodland on deep sandy soils often around laterite.

Hakea erecta fruit