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Corymbia deserticola

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Corymbia deserticola (D.J.Carr & S.G.M.Carr) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus deserticola D.J.Carr & S.G.M.Carr (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus deserticola D.J.Carr & S.G.M.Carr (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eucalyptus deserticola J.W.Green (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eucalyptus desertorum D.J.Carr & S.G.M.Carr (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schulze_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Stephens_2024 (16), 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 34 traits from 76 records in 16 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): 13.75 mm (9-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.75 mm (9-16 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_area (numerical): 628.82 mm2 (628.82-628.82 mm2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 40.33 mm (20-62 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 24.83 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (2); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (4); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyynnn (1); nnnnyyyyynyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021; Stephens_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.78 mg (5.78-5.78 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); winged (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5 m (2-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Stephens_2024916R. 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).
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231215D. 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/.
Kew_2019_614Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Schulze_201411E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
Stephens_202111R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.