AusTraits

Hakea rostrata

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea rostrata F.Muell. ex Meisn.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hakea lurida Gand. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hakea pampliniana Kippist (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hakea vittata R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), ANBG_2019 (3), Cheal_2017 (8), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Dong_2017 (29), Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2020 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (20), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (80), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 246 records in 24 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_length (numerical): 33.5 mm (22-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 24.67 mm (16-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 24 mm (16-32 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 124.54 mm2 (84.9-162.79 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 101.25 mm (20-150 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.36 mm (0.8-1.7 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 72.52 mg (40-108.1 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 528.53 g/m2 (374.93-769.14 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): terete (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2020; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2); vertebrate (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [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 (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 5.76 mg/g (5.1-6.29 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.52 {delta}[ppth] (-31.25--28.18 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 18.89 mg (18.76-19.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (13-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1); ovoid (1); winged (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.64 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Staples_2019480T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
Dong_2017829N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
RBGV_20231420VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_20231219S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
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.
Cheal_201788D. 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.
Jordan_202066G. 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.
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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_201424J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
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.
ANBG_201933Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Yang_202333S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.