Hakea victoria

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hakea victoria J.Drumm.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hakea drummondii G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
Hakea drummondii Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Hakea victorae F.L.Erickson (orthographic variant)
Hakea victoriae Meisn. (orthographic variant)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hakea cucullata R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), ANBG_2019 (1), Barrett_2009 (14), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Groom_1997 (9), Groom_2010 (2), Jordan_2020 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kuo_1982 (21), Lamont_2002 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 66 traits from 118 records in 22 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 (7) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Groom_1997; Groom_2010]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 2437.4 mg (2437.4-2437.4 mg) [sources: Groom_1997]
fruit_length (numerical): 24.7 mm (23-28 mm) [sources: Groom_1997; ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.2 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Groom_1997; ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 5690.4 mm2 (5690.4-5690.4 mm2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (40-115 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 85 mm (40-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 476.19 g/m2 (476.19-476.19 g/m2) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Lamont_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1); flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Jordan_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1) [sources: Groom_1997]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (5) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
serotiny (categorical): serotiny_high (1); serotiny_moderate (1) [sources: Groom_1997; Groom_2010]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Groom_1997]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 3.78 mg/g (2.8-4.75 mg/g) [sources: Kuo_1982; Lamont_2002]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.08 mg/g (0.05-0.1 mg/g) [sources: Kuo_1982; Lamont_2002]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 24.59 mg (21.2-28 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Groom_1997; Kew_2019_1; Kuo_1982]
seed_length (numerical): 19 mm (18-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.33 m (1.3-3.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Kuo_1982	21	21	J. Kuo, P. Hocking, and J. Pate. “Nutrient reserves in seeds of selected Proteaceous species from South-western Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany 30.1 (1982), pp. 231 - 249. doi: 10.1071/bt9820231.
ABRS_2023	13	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Barrett_2009	6	14	S. 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.
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.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	N. 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_2020	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Chen_2017	5	5	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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
ABRS_1981	3	3	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/.
Jordan_2020	3	3	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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Groom_2010	2	2	P. K. Groom and B. B. Lamont. “Phosphorus accumulation in Proteaceae seeds: A synthesis”. Plant and Soil 334.1-2 (2010), pp. 61-72. doi: 10.1007/s11104-009-0135-6.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://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.