Eucalyptus dissimulata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus dissimulata Brooker

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

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Barrett_2009 (3), CPBR_2002 (7), Clarke_2015 (2), Gallagher_2015 (1), Gosper_2012 (6), Nicolle_2006 (3), RBGK_2014 (1), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (16), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 78 records in 17 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 (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012; Nicolle_2006]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 58.33 mm (25-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (5-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.15 cm (0.5-1.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 349.39 g/m2 (349.39-349.39 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Nicolle_2006]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Nicolle_2006]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.5 mg/g (11.5-11.5 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.23 {delta}[ppth] (-28.23--28.23 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.33 mg (0.33-0.33 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.17 m (1-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	20	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	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).
CPBR_2002	4	7	Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Gosper_2012	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Barrett_2009	3	3	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Nicolle_2006	3	3	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.
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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gallagher_2015	1	1	R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.