Hakea
Hakea is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with leaves that are sometimes flat, otherwise circular in cross section in which case they are sometimes divided. The flowers are usually arranged in groups in leaf axils and resemble those of other genera, especially Grevillea. Hakeas have woody fruit which distinguishes them from grevilleas which have non-woody fruit which release the seeds as they mature. Hakeas are found in every state of Australia with the highest species diversity being found in the south west of Western Australia.

JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProteaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
23 occurrences of Hakea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
23 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Hakea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hakea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
247 taxa- Banksia21 sites
- Eucalyptus21 sites
- Myrtaceae21 sites
- Acacia20 sites
- Asteraceae20 sites
- Casuarinaceae20 sites
- Chenopodiaceae20 sites
- Cyathea20 sites
- Cyperaceae20 sites
- Dicksonia20 sites
- Gleichenia20 sites
- Nothofagus20 sites
- Phyllocladus20 sites
- Plantago20 sites
- Poaceae20 sites
- Podocarpus20 sites
- Restionaceae20 sites
- Botryococcus19 sites
- Cunoniaceae19 sites
- Dacrycarpus19 sites
- Dacrydium19 sites
- Haloragis19 sites
- Monolete19 sites
- Myrsine19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Hakea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia19
- Early Middle Pleistocene leaves of extinct and extant Proteaceae from western Tasmania, Australia2
- Fossil evidence for a hyperdiverse sclerophyll flora under a non–Mediterranean-type climate1
- A fossil flora from rafted Plio Pleistocene mudstones at Regatta Point, Tasmania1
Each of the 23 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Hakea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hakea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Hakea”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProteaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrader 1798