Hakea decurrens

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea decurrens R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hakea brachyrrhyncha F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Hakea brachyrrhyncha Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Hakea tenuifolia var. decurrens (R.Br.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hakea acicularis var. lissosperma (R.Br.) Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
Hakea sericea Schrad. & J.C.Wendl. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT, Vic, Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (2), Cheal_2017 (8), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (16), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (17), Yang_2023 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 135 records in 21 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 (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 26.5 mm (18-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 21.67 mm (10-36 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 46.88 mm (15-80 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.11 mm (0.7-1.6 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (3) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1); vertebrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1); nnnnyyyyynnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (2) [sources: Yang_2023]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: Yang_2023]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.63 mg (13.69-30.18 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 20 mm (17-23 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (6.5-10.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.61 m (0.3-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	16	23	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	12	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_2020	17	17	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	11	16	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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.
Yang_2023	3	6	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
Jordan_2020	4	4	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.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_1981	2	2	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/.
ANBG_2019	1	2	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.