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Eucalyptus cladocalyx

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus cladocalyx F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus corynocalyx F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA, Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Bourne_2017 (9), CPBR_2002 (8), Draper_2023 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (2), Morgan_2011_1 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), Stephens_2024 (18), Vlasveld_2018 (6), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 117 records in 23 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.83 mm (6-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (4-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); caryopsis (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2741.72 mm2 (2710.65-2772.8 mm2) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 97.5 mm (20-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32.3 mm (12-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; RBGV_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 696.78 mg (674.5-719.05 mg) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.65 cm (1.2-2.1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 254.08 g/m2 (248.83-259.32 g/m2) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Morgan_2011_1; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1); mammal (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); undefined (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Morgan_2011_1]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1); yyyynnnnnnny (2) [sources: Stephens_2021; Stephens_2024]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.78 mg (1.25-8.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.86 mg/mm3 (0.86-0.86 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 113.01 {count}/mm2 (113.01-113.01 {count}/mm2) [sources: Bourne_2017]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 33.1 um (33.1-33.1 um) [sources: Bourne_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (15-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Stephens_2024918R. 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).
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231315VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Bourne_201799A. E. Bourne, D. Creek, J. M. R. Peters, D. S. Ellsworth, and B. Choat. “Species climate range influences hydraulic and stomatal traits in Eucalyptus species”. Annals of Botany 120.1 (2017), pp. 123-133. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcx020.
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Vlasveld_201836C. 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.
Morgan_2011_155J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Grassy woodland traits, La Trobe University”. 2011.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. 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.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_200033I. 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.
Yang_202333S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Stephens_202112R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.