Corymbia ferruginea

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Corymbia ferruginea (Schauer) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eucalyptus ferruginea Schauer (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (5), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schulze_2014 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (16), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 94 records in 18 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 23.5 mm (18-33 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 19.25 mm (15-29 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): 4699.83 mm2 (2763.5-8312 mm2) [sources: Schulze_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 125.17 mm (63-215 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Stephens_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.5-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 169.67 g/m2 (169.67-169.67 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblong (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_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): 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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Wright_2008]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnny (2) [sources: NTH_2014; Stephens_2024]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.4 mg/g (8.4-8.4 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.43 mg/g (0.43-0.43 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.55-0.55 mg/mm3) [sources: Wright_2008]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10.17 m (3-12 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Stephens_2024	9	16	R. 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).
NTH_2023	11	14	D. 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/.
Wright_2008	9	9	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
NTH_2014	5	5	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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_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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Schulze_2014	1	2	E. 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.
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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.