Hakea cygnus subsp. needlei

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea cygnus subsp. needlei Lamont

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (6), Groom_1997 (9), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lamont_2002 (6), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 34 records in 10 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: Groom_1997]

fruit morphology

fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 5271.5 mg (5271.5-5271.5 mg) [sources: Groom_1997]
fruit_length (numerical): 27.3 mm (27.3-27.3 mm) [sources: Groom_1997]
fruit_width (numerical): 28.2 mm (28.2-28.2 mm) [sources: Groom_1997]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 74.3 mm2 (74.3-74.3 mm2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 404.86 g/m2 (404.86-404.86 g/m2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_type (categorical): needle (1) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): strap-shaped (1); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
serotiny (categorical): serotiny_moderate (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Groom_1997]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.61 mg/g (9.61-9.61 mg/g) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg/g (0.18-0.18 mg/g) [sources: Lamont_2002]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 36.3 mg (36.3-36.3 mg) [sources: Groom_1997; Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.25 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Groom_1997	9	9	P. K. Groom and B. B. Lamont. “Fruit-seed relations in Hakea: serotinous species invest more dry matter in predispersal seed protection”. Austral Ecology 22.3 (1997), pp. 352-355. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00682.x.
ABRS_2023	5	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lamont_2002	6	6	B. B. Lamont, P. K. Groom, and R. M. Cowling. “High leaf mass per area of related species assemblages may reflect low rainfall and carbon isotope discrimination rather than low phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations”. Functional Ecology 16 (2002), pp. 403-412. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00631.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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.