Eucalyptus canescens
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Eucalyptus canescens D.Nicolle
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (16), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 29 records in 6 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
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
- fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (75-125 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
- leaf_width (numerical): 39 mm (20-58 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 435.28 g/m2 (435.28-435.28 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1); mammal (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.3 mg/g (13.3-13.3 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
- leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.8 {delta}[ppth] (-26.8--26.8 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| 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. |
| 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. |