Conospermum hookeri

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Conospermum hookeri (Meisn.) E.M.Benn.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Conospermum taxifolium var. ? hookeri Meisn. (nomenclatural synonym)
Conospermum taxifolium var. ? leianthum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Conospermum taxifolium C.F.Gaertn. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (8), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2020 (15), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 63 records in 12 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.12 mm (2-2.25 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 22.55 mm2 (22.55-22.55 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_length (numerical): 27.75 mm (19-32 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 162.39 g/m2 (162.39-162.39 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; McGlone_2015]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): incurved (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.11 mg (1.89-2.54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Chen_2017]
seed_width (numerical): 2.12 mm (2.12-2.12 mm) [sources: Chen_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	12	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_2020	15	15	G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
Chen_2017	8	8	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.