AusTraits

Eucalyptus flavida

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus flavida Brooker & Hopper

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus redunca var. oxymitra Maiden (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), CPBR_2002 (7), Gallagher_2015 (1), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Schulze_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (12), Vlasveld_2018 (16), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 76 records in 14 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): yellow_orange (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (10-11 mm) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 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_area (numerical): 920.48 mm2 (658.1-1183.65 mm2) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (65-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 269.65 mg (158.8-384.15 mg) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.55 cm (0.8-2.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 296.82 g/m2 (241.3-324.55 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2006; Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (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 (3); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.9 mg/g (10.9-10.9 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2006]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.45 {delta}[ppth] (-28.45--28.45 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.26 mg (3.26-3.26 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.15 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.91 mg/mm3 (0.91-0.91 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9.17 m (5-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231620Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Vlasveld_2018516C. 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.
Stephens_2024712R. 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_200247Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
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.
Schulze_200633E. 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
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.
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.