Hakea salicifolia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea salicifolia (Vent.) B.L.Burtt

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Conchium salicifolium C.F.Gaertn. (taxonomic synonym)
Embothrium salicifolium Vent. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Harrison_2009 (13), Hughes_1992 (5), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (10), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Kubiak_2009 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 113 records in 19 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 (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 25.25 mm (20-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 19.75 mm (13-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 790.92 mm2 (790.92-790.92 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_length (numerical): 91.67 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 13 mm (4-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 146.77 g/m2 (140-153.53 g/m2) [sources: Harrison_2009; Jordan_2020]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Harrison_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; Yang_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.68 mg/g (8.68-8.68 mg/g) [sources: Harrison_2009]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -21.3 {delta}[ppth] (-21.3--21.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Harrison_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 20.2 mg (20.2-20.2 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (3-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (3-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Harrison_2009	12	13	M. T. Harrison, E. J. Edwards, G. D. Farquhar, A. B. Nicotra, and J. R. Evans. “Nitrogen in cell walls of sclerophyllous leaves accounts for little of the variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency”. Plant, Cell and Environment 32 (2009), pp. 259-270. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01918.x.
NHNSW_2023	9	13	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/.
Jordan_2020	10	10	G. 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.
Kubiak_2009	5	7	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Hughes_1992	5	5	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, 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.
Jordan_2015	4	4	G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. 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/.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
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/.
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.