Eucalyptus caesia

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus caesia Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eucalyptus caesia Benth. subsp. caesia (nomenclatural synonym)
Eucalyptus caesia subsp. magna Brooker & Hopper (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (9), ABRS_2023 (41), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), CPBR_2002 (14), Gallagher_2015 (4), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (5), Nicolle_2006 (12), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Schulze_2006 (3), Shedley_2007 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (38), Sweedman_2006 (16), WAH_2022_2 (9), WAH_2023_2 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 195 records in 20 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 (10) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Nicolle_2006; Shedley_2007]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 60 mo (60-60 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (2) [sources: Stephens_2024]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 25.25 mm (15-37 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (18-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 122.38 mm (25-240 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 32.12 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.25 cm (1-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 334.77 g/m2 (334.77-334.77 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (7); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1); bird (1); insect (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (2) [sources: Stephens_2024]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (4) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (6); basal_stem_buds (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Nicolle_2006; Shedley_2007]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.2 mg/g (12.2-12.2 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.03 {delta}[ppth] (-27.03--27.03 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.94 mg (2.2-8.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.12 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 9.66 m (1.8-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	41	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	38	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).
Shedley_2007	4	16	E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
Sweedman_2006	2	16	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
CPBR_2002	4	14	Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Nicolle_2006	3	12	D. 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.
ABRS_2022	3	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	3	9	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	6	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Gallagher_2015	1	4	R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Kew_2019_1	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Schulze_2006	3	3	E. Schulze, N. C. Turner, D. Nicolle, and J. Schumacher. “Species differences in carbon isotope ratios, specific leaf area and nitrogen concentrations in leaves of Eucalyptus growing in a common garden compared with along an aridity gradient”. Physiologia Plantarum 127.3 (2006), pp. 434-444. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00682.x.
SPRAT_2025_2	1	2	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.