Hakea scoparia subsp. scoparia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea scoparia Meisn. subsp. scoparia

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), ANBG_2019 (1), Groom_1997 (9), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (2), Lamont_2002 (6), Tsakalos_2020 (17), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 59 records in 13 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 (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Groom_1997; Tsakalos_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 700 mg (700-700 mg) [sources: Groom_1997]
fruit_length (numerical): 18.6 mm (17-20 mm) [sources: Groom_1997; ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10.3 mm (8-11.6 mm) [sources: Groom_1997; ABRS_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 350.2 mm2 (350.2-350.2 mm2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 462.96 g/m2 (462.96-462.96 g/m2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_type (categorical): needle (1) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); open (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyynnn (1); nyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Tsakalos_2020]
serotiny (categorical): serotiny_moderate (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Groom_1997]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 4.32 mg/g (4.32-4.32 mg/g) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.17 mg/g (0.17-0.17 mg/g) [sources: Lamont_2002]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.66 mg (5.09-6.79 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Groom_1997; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	16	17	J. 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_2023	7	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Groom_1997	9	9	P. 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.
Lamont_2002	6	6	B. 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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	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	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.