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Corymbia cliftoniana

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Corymbia cliftoniana (W.Fitzg.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus cliftoniana W.Fitzg. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucalyptus pontis D.J.Carr & S.G.M.Carr (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus pyrophora Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (30), CPBR_2002 (8), Gallagher_2015 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nicolle_2006 (3), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (15), 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 33 traits from 99 records in 14 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 18.5 mm (14-24 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 19.25 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 115.17 mm (40-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 21.7 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.93 cm (1-2.9 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_lanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Nicolle_2006]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); winged (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7.6 m (4-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231530Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231317D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Stephens_2024915R. E. Stephens, H. Sauquet, B. Laugier, C. Gosper, and R. V. Gallagher. “Eucalypt flower size and colour shaped more by pollination than abiotic environment”. in review (2024).
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
ABRS_202236Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Nicolle_200633D. Nicolle. “A classification and census of regenerative strategies in the eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus - Myrtaceae), with special reference to the obligate seeders”. Australian Journal of Botany 54.4 (2006), pp. 391-407. doi: 10.1071/bt05061.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gallagher_201511R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.