AusTraits

Hakea ilicifolia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea ilicifolia R.Br.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Conchium mucronulatum Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea ilicifolia R.Br. var. ilicifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hakea ilicifolia var. major Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea ilicifolia var. minor Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea intermedia Hook. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Groom_1997 (9), Jordan_2020 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lamont_2002 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 71 records in 17 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 634.5 mg (634.5-634.5 mg) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • fruit_length (numerical): 16.9 mm (16.9-16.9 mm) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.6 mm (10.6-10.6 mm) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 154.4 mm2 (154.4-154.4 mm2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (15-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 574.71 g/m2 (574.71-574.71 g/m2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_type (categorical): needle (1) [sources: Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obtriangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Wheeler_2002]
  • 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 (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; WAH_1998]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotiny_moderate (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2) [sources: Groom_1997; Yang_2023]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.4 mg (6.4-6.4 mg) [sources: Groom_1997; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (11-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.33 m (1-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231014Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Groom_199799P. 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.
Lamont_200266B. 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.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_198133B. 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/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_202033G. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_202322S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.