AusTraits

Corymbia torelliana

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Corymbia torelliana (F.Muell.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus torelliana F.Muell. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (35), CPBR_2002 (8), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2015 (1), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kooyman_2011 (12), McCarthy_2017 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (16), Vlasveld_2018 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (10), Zanne_2009 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 144 records in 19 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.67 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3250.33 mm2 (1373.95-4456.81 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 114.5 mm (60-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Kooyman_2011; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 46.6 mm (10-105 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Kooyman_2011; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 132.07 mg (125.2-137.6 mg) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.48 cm (0.5-2.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 77.54 g/m2 (68.92-95.38 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cordate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Stephens_2024]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.65 mg (2.65-2.65 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.17 mm (1.2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.74 mg/mm3 (0.69-0.79 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231835Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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).
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011912R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Vlasveld_2018312C. Vlasveld, B. O'Leary, F. Udovicic, and M. Burd. “Leaf heteroblasty in eucalypts: biogeographic evidence of ecological function”. Australian Journal of Botany 66.3 (2018), pp. 191-201. doi: 10.1071/bt17134.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Wright_20001010I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
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.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Williams_201233P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Zanne_200912A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.
Gallagher_201511R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Ilic_200011J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.