AusTraits

Hakea prostrata

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea prostrata R.Br.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hakea glabella R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea glabella R.Br. subsp. glabella (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea glabella R.Br. var. glabella (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea glabella subsp. prostrata (R.Br.) Ewart & Jean White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea glabella var. denticulata (R.Br.) Meisn. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea glabella var. paucidentata Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), ANBG_2019 (6), Barrett_2009 (3), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Enright_2014 (9), Funk_2016 (56), Gosper_2012 (6), Groom_1997 (9), Hayes_2018 (57), Jordan_2020 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lamont_2002 (17), Munroe_2019 (1), Pate_1990 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (19), Shedley_2007 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (6), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), Tsakalos_2022 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Yang_2023 (3), deCampos_2013 (3), vanderMoezel_1987 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 94 traits from 305 records in 37 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 (4); resprouts (11) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Groom_1997; Pate_1990; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (6); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Pate_1990; Yang_2023]
  • fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 36 mo (36-36 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 1414.5 mg (1414.5-1414.5 mg) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • fruit_length (numerical): 31.93 mm (23-38 mm) [sources: Groom_1997; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Groom_1997; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 541.03 mm2 (401.7-807.4 mm2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 39.17 mm (15-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 23.33 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 310.86 g/m2 (141.81-420.17 g/m2) [sources: Funk_2016; Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); elliptical (3); widely_obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (3); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020; RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Funk_2016; Gosper_2012; RBGV_2022; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Funk_2016]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (11) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Funk_2016; Jordan_2020; RBGV_2022; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (4); prostrate (4); sprawling (2); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Funk_2016; Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): proteoid_root (2) [sources: Funk_2016; Standish_2019]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnynnn (1); nnnnnnyyyynn (3); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Standish_2019; Yang_2023]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2); serotiny_low (1) [sources: Gosper_2012; Groom_1997; Yang_2023]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (4); basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Groom_1997; Shedley_2007; Tsakalos_2022]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 7.34 mg/g (4.39-15.2 mg/g) [sources: Funk_2016; Lamont_2002]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.48 mg/g (0.21-1.05 mg/g) [sources: Funk_2016; Hayes_2018; Lamont_2002; deCampos_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 51.09 mg (33.27-60 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Groom_1997; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 15.94 mm (9.81-20 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6.4 mm (6.4-6.4 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1); winged (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Hayes_20181957P. E. Hayes, P. L. Clode, R. S. Oliveira, and H. Lambers. “Proteaceae from phosphorus-impoverished habitats preferentially allocate phosphorus to photosynthetic cells: An adaptation improving phosphorus-use efficiency”. Plant, Cell and Environment 41.3 (2018), pp. 605-619. doi: 10.1111/pce.13124.
Funk_20161656J. L. Funk, R. J. Standish, W. D. Stock, and F. Valladares. “Plant functional traits of dominant native and invasive species in mediterranean-climate ecosystems”. Ecology 97.1 (2016), pp. 75-83. doi: 10.1890/15-0974.1.
RBGV_20231419VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Tsakalos_20201718J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_20231117Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lamont_2002617B. 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.
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.
Enright_201439N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306.
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.
Jordan_202077G. 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.
ANBG_201966Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Gosper_201266C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
Standish_201966R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_244N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Pate_199044J. S. Pate, R. H. Froend, B. J. Bowen, A. Hansen, and J. Kuo. “Seedling growth and storage characteristics of seeder and resprouter species of Mediterranean-type ecosystems of SW Australia”. Annals of Botany 65.6 (1990), pp. 585-601. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087976.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Shedley_200744E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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/.
Barrett_200933S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Yang_202333S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
deCampos_201333M. C. R. de Campos, S. J. Pearse, R. S. Oliveira, and H. Lambers. “Downregulation of net phosphorus-uptake capacity is inversely related to leaf phosphorus-resorption proficiency in four species from a phosphorus-impoverished environment”. Annals of Botany 111.3 (2013), pp. 445-454. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs299.
Clarke_201522P. 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.
Tsakalos_202222J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131.
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.
vanderMoezel_198722P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
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/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
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.