AusTraits

Hakea megadenia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea megadenia R.M.Barker

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hakea rostrata F.Muell. ex Meisn. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Hakea rugosa R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 55 records in 14 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 (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 21.5 mm (18-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (35-135 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.2 mm (1-1.8 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): terete (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; McGlone_2015]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.36 mg (5.22-5.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (6-10.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4 m (3-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023913Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_201566M. 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.
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.
ABRS_198144B. 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/.
Jordan_202044G. 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.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202011J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.