AusTraits

Eucalyptus bunyip

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus bunyip Rule

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gallagher_2015 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Portelli_2023 (54), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 82 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 51.81 mg (37.22-64.74 mg) [sources: Portelli_2023]
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); caryopsis (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.44 mg (0.26-0.65 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Portelli_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Portelli_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Portelli_20231154A. M. Portelli, S. M. Windecker, L. J. Pollock, W. C. Neal, W. K. Morris, R. Khot, and P. A. Vesk. “From mallees to mountain ash, specific leaf area is coordinated with eucalypt tree stature, resprouting, stem construction, and fruit size”. Australian Journal of Botany 71.8 (2023). Ed. by D. Williams, pp. 506-522. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23028.
RBGV_20231616VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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.