Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea leucoptera R.Br. subsp. leucoptera

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hakea florigera Gand. (taxonomic synonym)
Hakea stricta F.Muell. ex Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Hakea virgata R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)

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

Hakea kippistiana Meisn. (misapplied)
Hakea leucoptera var. kippistiana (Meisn.) F.Muell. ex J.M.Black (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2023 (3), ANBG_2019 (2), Cheal_2017 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (9), Nano_2011 (4), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (17), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (17), Yang_2023 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 87 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (6); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3); post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 24.5 mm (17-32 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (35-100 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.65 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
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 (3); tree (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_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): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; 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); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; RussellSmith_2012]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2); none (1); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 26 mg (21.02-30.51 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.5 m (1-8 m) [sources: 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	12	17	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.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	7	9	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.
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.
Nano_2011	3	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
ABRS_2023	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.